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First, you have to build a business plan. The construction is only one part of what you need to worry about… and it shouldn't be the first thing.The FIRST thing you need to do is go spend a year working at two or three of these places… ideally competing brands, and learn all you can about their operations. What’s working?? What’s not??You need to understand what’s it going to take to succeed. Then build a business plan. Take a night class (or two) in being an entrepreneur. Go find a mentor (free!!) to help coach you… ideally someone like yourself - 5 or 10 years older than you, but someone who had a dream and made it happen.Here are some of the expenses you need to line out:Start up capitol - new businesses EAT cash… you’re going to have to have a PILE of it to get you going. Most new businesses are under capitalized and many fold after a month or two when the cash runs out. Supplies, utilities, fixing things that break… gifts… promotions all cost money.Real Estate: You’re going to lease.. face it, you likely can not afford to build new. Find a visible location that some one else’s dream failed at and lease it. You’ll need a broker to assist in the search.Insurance: Go find out now what’s involved in insuring both your business and the customers animals.Design fees: You’ll need an architect to design the facility, and prepare the permit and construction documents. Go find one you can work with and don’t expect them to “give you ideas”… free work is usually crap. Good firms don’t give stuff away, bad ones will…Building permits & business licenses cost money.Construction costs - simple enough to understand… you can bid the work out, but I’d suggest that you find out who built out your competitors space. This could be as easy as taking the address to the building department and looking it up. Call them, find out who the architect was then go meet with both of them separately - see what one has to say about the other. They should have mutual respect, but if not see if you can figure out what went wrong. BTW, the city will also have the cost of construction on file. Now PLEASE UNDERSTAND that this cost is the ANTICIPATED cost prior to the start and NOT the final cost. Also, many contractors under report the cost to the city as the building permit cost is based on the cost of the job.FF&E: that’s furniture, fixtures and equipment:… This is NOT supplied by the contractor, but by you, or vendors you hire. Thighs can be a lot.Signage - interior and exterior. As important are branding elements… you need more than a sign over the door and room signs, you need an interior that instill confidence in the consumer. Tell a story, show your brand. Its more than posters…IT, security & data systems… music systems.. all important. POS (Point of sales) system… that’s a cash register… likely an Ipad these days…Advertising - It’s not all about facebook… be prepared to spend some money… targeted money. Paying high school kids to put flyers on doors on nice homes in the area… something…Web presence…. you’ll need a web site, and social mediaConsumables… food, first aid supplies, office supplies, cleaning supplies.Training - you’re going to need plenty of it… do this before you launchThere are likely plenty more things to worry about.As for how much the build out might be… I’m not even sure how large these facilities are… as I can’t find any plans on their web site. Let’s assume that they are 5,000 sf with 1,000 sf outside. I’d assume your into this for somewhere in the $120 to $135 /sf range, which would be $600,000 to $675,000.That is a total WAG (Wild ass guess)… go find a contractor that’s built one and talk. There are far too many variables to deal with here….