
Warehouse Specific Considerations: Fencing, Scales, and Roof Lifting
Fencing While you are doing construction on your office, warehouse and docks, you will also install exterior fencing if this is something that is important to you. Most fencing is relatively...

Warehouse Specific Considerations: Dock Equipment
Chance are there will be some changing of the dock equipment during the lease of a new building or a lease extension on an existing building. There are always improvements to be made, operational...

Warehouse Specific Considerations: Fire Suppression
Fire suppression is a lump sum category for all of the ways in which building fire life safety systems work to prevent, provide time for evacuation from, and extinguishment of fires. Warehouses have...

Warehouse Specific Considerations: Backup Generators
Backup generators are what you use to build in redundancy so that you prevent downtime and disruption in the event of power failure. While some businesses have backup generators more as a practical...

Warehouse Specific Considerations: Machines and Electricity
Machines A manufacturing operation consists of machines and equipment that people use to create finished goods. Manufacturing can be automotive, aerospace, industrial supply, apparel, food (which...

Ways to Handle Storage During Construction
Storage During Construction Sometimes it will help your cause substantially if you can use a portion of the warehouse, while the contractor is constructing the office space, for receiving new...

How A Work Letter Can Help You
Once you have designed your space, bid out the work, and secured funding it is time to document everything within the lease. This is where the work letter comes into play. The space plan is the raw...

Understanding Tenant Improvement Allowances
Once the landlord has completed pricing your TI’s, they can finalize how much they will offer. This allowance will be based upon achieving a specific rental rate, including annual rental increases,...

What to Expect From Space Planning
Space planning is where an architect excels. The architect will help custom fit your future space within your operational and financial requirements. Your broker will help assess what is already in...

Negotiating Tactics: Subleasing and Lease Option to Extend
Subleasing You need to be familiar with subleasing as this will be your primary method of ending your occupancy if you find that you no longer require the property. Inexperienced business owners...