Amenity Floor AV & Building Technology

In Plain English: Amenity floors are how Class A buildings compete now. The integrator who builds the amenity floor decides whether residents brag about the building or quietly look at the building down the block. Our job is to make sure it is the first one. Year one and year ten.

What an Amenity Floor Actually Is

An amenity floor is a building’s shared luxury infrastructure. Theaters, lounges, golf simulators, gyms, wellness suites, coworking, conference rooms, lobbies, rooftop entertainment, and the building network that makes all of it work. It is residential in feel and commercial in build. It has to behave like a hotel and live like a home. That is a specific discipline. We have spent over twenty years building it.

The amenity floor used to be a perk. Now it is the deal. Buyers and renters in Class A buildings are choosing buildings on the strength of the amenity floor before they ever see a unit. The amenity floor is the front of the magazine spread. The amenity floor is the line in the leasing tour that closes the deal. The amenity floor is the first thing that breaks if the integrator was the wrong one.

This page is for developers, building owners, building management, condo and co-op boards, and the architects and design firms working with them. If you are a homeowner inside a high-rise looking for unit-level help, the right page for you is the High-Rise & Metro Living FAQ. The work bridges. The audience does not.

What We Build on the Floor

Private screening lounges and theaters. Calibrated displays or LED walls. Real Atmos. Acoustic treatment that does not look like acoustic treatment. Programmed control that a resident can run on their first visit without a manual.
Golf simulators. PGA-grade tracking, the right room geometry, the right projector or LED, audio that holds up, and a control surface a member can operate without a staff escort.
Wellness and spa suites. Sauna, cold plunge, treatment rooms. Sound, lighting, and climate scenes that match the program. Quiet that is engineered, not hoped for.
Fitness floors. Smart equipment integration, video walls and TV zones, ceiling audio that survives a class, group-fitness AV that staff can run from a panel.
Conference and coworking. Boardrooms, divisible conference, phone booths, hot-desks, Microsoft Teams Rooms and Zoom Rooms standard, scheduling integration, and the network spine to support all of it.
Lobbies and arrival. Wayfinding, video walls, brand and programmatic content, ambient sound and music, paging that does not break the room, integration with concierge and access control.
Rooftop and outdoor entertainment. Weather-rated AV, distributed audio that respects the neighbors, lighting that works for an event and a quiet Tuesday, scenes that the building staff can run from a single panel.
Game rooms, pool decks, club rooms, screening libraries. Not all amenity floors are the same. We build the program the building actually has, not the one in a brochure from the last decade.
The building network underneath. Segmented Ubiquiti at the UISP and Pro Partner level. Real WiFi engineering, not access points sprayed across a ceiling. The network is the floor of the floor.

Amenity-floor screening lounge with leather club seating, integrated AV, and a floor-to-ceiling skyline view at blue hour — A screening lounge that a resident can use on their first visit without a phone call to the front desk is the result of a lot of decisions made the right way upstream.

Why the Wrong Integrator Costs the Building Money

The amenity floor is the first thing residents touch. The first time it does not work is the first time they question the building. The second time it does not work, they tell their friends. By month four, the leasing pitch and the resident experience are not the same story. That gap is what we are paid to close.

I have walked into amenity floors built by integrators who treated the job like a residential install scaled up, and amenity floors built by commercial integrators who had never lived inside a luxury home. Both miss. Residential discipline says the room has to feel beautiful. Commercial discipline says it has to be bulletproof for staff and residents who never read a manual. The amenity floor needs both. Pick an integrator who only has one and you will see the gap on day thirty.

How We Run the Job

We start before the wire moves. Working with the developer, the architect, the design team, and building management, we spec the rooms, document the system, and put a real plan together for what the floor needs to do on opening day and on every day after. We protect the program from the value-engineering pass that quietly cuts the parts that make it feel premium.

We own the jobsite. Schedule, scope, sequencing, and the right to push back when a decision early in the build is going to cause a problem at handoff. We commission like the building depends on it, because it does. Calibration, soak time, staff training, and the real punch list closed before the floor opens to residents. Not the cosmetic one. That is the integrator’s discipline. A developer who hires us is hiring that discipline. Letting us use it is the deal.

We stay after opening. Monitored remote support, scheduled site visits, training the front-of-house and engineering teams, and standing behind the building when a vendor changes their firmware in a way nobody warned anyone about. Buildings keep using amenity floors for decades. The system has to keep up. We are still there.

Working With Whoever Else Is on the Job

We do not require that we be the unit-level integrator. We do not require that the building’s commercial AV consultant work for us. We have done the amenity floor when other firms had the units. We have done the units when other firms had the amenity. We have done both. The deciding question is what the building actually needs, not who gets to plant the flag.

If you have already retained another integrator and you want a second read on the AV and technology side of the amenity package, that is what our Owner’s Rep practice is for. We will tell you, on the record, where the design is sound and where it is not. We will not soften the read because the integrator on the other side of the table is a friend.

What We Stand Behind

Restrepo holds four credentials and we will not stretch any of them: Elite Pro Crestron Dealer, HTA Luxury Certified, OSHA Certified, and Ubiquiti UISP and Pro Partner. Those are real. We list them because we earned them.

We design, deploy, install, configure, and support a wide range of brands across our amenity-floor work, including Ketra and Colorbeam lighting, Q-SYS audio, and a long list of display, projection, and shading partners. Service is not a certification. We will tell you the truth about which brand we recommend and why. We will tell you the truth about the brands we have stopped using, and the reasons we stopped, on our How We Vet Products page.

Where Amenity Work Bridges to the Rest of the Building

The amenity floor is one floor. The building is the building. We build the amenity floor as a system that can talk to the network, the access control, the concierge dashboard, and the building’s management software in the ways those systems should talk to each other. When the resident’s home unit gets the same network discipline and the same control language as the amenity floor, the building feels different. The friction goes away. That is the experience the leasing team is selling. We make it real.

If you are reading this as a developer, a building owner, a board member, or the architect tied to the project, that is the value: we have seen what each side does well and we bring it to the other. The amenity floor on its own. The unit-level work on its own. Both at once. We can do any of those.

Service Area

We serve New Jersey (Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic, Hudson, plus the Hudson waterfront high-rises and the luxury towns of Alpine, Saddle River, Franklin Lakes, Short Hills, and Tenafly). Connecticut (Fairfield and Litchfield counties, Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Westport, Stamford, and Ridgefield). New York (Westchester, Manhattan, and the Hamptons). For multi-property developer relationships and ownership groups with portfolios outside our home region, we travel.

The Standing Pledge

People buy Restrepo sites. Not the manufacturers that are inside of them. If something we put in a building does not behave the way we said it would, we own it. We come back. We make it right. We do that whether the manufacturer is helping us or not. That is the deal. Integrity always must come first, even when it hurts. I will tell you the truth even when it is uncomfortable.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who hires Restrepo for amenity-floor work?

Developers building or repositioning Class A high-rise and mixed-use properties. Building owners and management companies upgrading existing amenity floors. Condo and co-op boards funding amenity improvements. Architects and design firms looking for an integrator who can quietly hold up the AV and technology side of a high-end amenity package.

Is amenity-floor work the same as a hospitality job?

It is closer to hospitality than to a single-family home. The room has to feel residential. The system has to behave commercially. Staff have to operate it without thinking. Residents have to use it without a phone call to the front desk. That is a specific discipline. We have it.

Do you take amenity-floor projects where another integrator is doing the units?

Yes. The amenity-floor integrator and the unit-level integrator do not have to be the same firm. We take the amenity scope on its own when that is the deal. We will coordinate with whoever has the units. We will not get into a turf fight. The job is to make the building feel right to the people who live there.

What technology stack do you lead with on amenity floors?

Crestron at the Elite Pro level for control. Q-SYS for serious commercial audio rooms. Ubiquiti at the UISP and Pro Partner level for the network. Real Atmos and calibrated displays in the screening and theater rooms. Lighting designed and integrated, not bought from a catalog. We pick the right tool and we stand behind it.

How do you handle service after the building opens?

We treat amenity floors as long-cycle work, not one-and-done installs. After opening we offer monitored remote support, scheduled site visits, training for building staff, and a relationship with management that does not end at handoff. The building keeps using the amenity floor for decades. The system has to keep up.

What credentials does Restrepo actually hold?

Elite Pro Crestron Dealer. HTA Luxury Certified. OSHA Certified. Ubiquiti UISP and Pro Partner. Those are the four. Anything else you may have heard about us, ask us directly.

Do you carry the right insurance to work in a Class A building?

Yes. We carry general liability, workers comp, and umbrella coverage that meets the limits the Class A buildings we work in actually require. We will issue the building or developer a Certificate of Insurance with the property listed as additional insured before the first crate moves. That is standard practice for us, not a negotiation.

How do amenity floors connect to unit-level work?

Buildings that get amenity floors right are the buildings residents brag about. Buildings that treat amenity floors as a checkbox lose tenants to the buildings that did not. The amenity floor is a sales tool, a retention tool, and a lifestyle promise. The unit-level work is where that promise has to keep being true after the homeowner closes. We do both. We can do them together or separately.