Build facilities your business can afford to operate.
Commercial construction for operators, owners, and developers.
From tenant improvements to ground-up builds.
An operator’s perspective. Experience across 150+ restaurant locations.
The Operator-First Development Model
We get involved before design and stay through operations so projects perform long after opening.
The building is part of the operating model. Early decisions affect performance long after opening.
Most construction problems start before construction
Decisions around size, layout, utilities, equipment, and scope show up later in labor efficiency, maintenance cost, and long-term performance. We get involved early so those decisions are made with the operating reality of the business in mind.
What We Do
Project Definition & Preconstruction
We get involved early to help define scope, align budget, coordinate with design teams, and set the project up correctly before construction begins.
Construction Execution
We serve as the general contractor for restaurant and retail tenant improvements and ground-up projects.
Facilities Strategy & Oversight
We help operators manage building performance after opening through facilities systems, vendor coordination, and capital planning.
Built from lived operating experience
We didn’t arrive at this perspective from the outside.
Our team has spent years building, operating, maintaining, and ultimately exiting real facilities — living with the downstream impact of construction decisions across the full life of a lease.
That experience spans more than 150 restaurant locations, where early choices around size, systems, and standards showed up later in maintenance costs, operational efficiency, and capital planning.
Manna Construction brings an end-to-end operator perspective to owners and developers who care about how projects perform long after turnover.
Selected Work
Restaurant and retail projects across tenant improvements and ground-up construction.
Ground-Up Restaurant
Panera Bread | Sparks, NV
Our team guided this project from site selection and preconstruction through delivery, serving as general contractor for the build. Today, we continue to manage the facility—bringing firsthand operating experience back into how we approach future projects.
Scope: Site selection · Preconstruction · General contracting · Ongoing facilities management
Restaurant Tenant Improvement
Panera Bread | Petoskey, MI
We helped the landlord envision how an end-cap space could work as a drive-through restaurant. Our team played a substantial role in shaping the interior design and completed the interior buildout, along with select exterior improvements.
Scope: Early layout planning · Interior design coordination · Interior buildout · Exterior improvements
Multi-Tenant Retail Development
Heartland Dental | Stonebrook, NV
Our team delivered this ground-up, multi-tenant building as part of a larger retail development we completed. We also built out Heartland Dental’s interior, carrying the project from building construction through a finished tenant space.
Scope: Ground-up construction · Multi-tenant building · Heartland Dental interior buildout
Ground-Up Office Development
Encinitas, CA
Our team identified a hillside parcel along one of Encinitas’ busiest streets and carried the project from site selection through development, construction, and leasing. Extensive excavation created space for a high-end office building with subterranean parking. The property remains in our ownership today.
Scope: Site selection · Development · Hillside excavation · Ground-up construction · Subterranean parking · Leasing
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Whether you are evaluating a site, planning a buildout, or scaling a portfolio, we can help define the project correctly and support it through construction.