From Builder to Partner

Wharton Smith Construction, a New York City commercial construction firm founded by Elliott Mishan, has scaled its operations to handle increasingly complex projects including office fit-outs, corporate headquarters, medical facilities, and adaptive reuse work while maintaining service quality through dedicated staffing roles, proprietary estimating systems, and experienced project leadership. The company has completed major projects including a 100,000-square-foot hotel-to-residential conversion in Lower Manhattan and a 110,000-square-foot luxury corporate headquarters build-out, emphasizing preconstruction planning, data-driven budgeting, and disciplined execution as competitive advantages in New York's evolving commercial real estate market.