As a commercial proprietor, you may have leased office spaces a plenty, but leasing a warehouse space is much different and will pose a separate set of considerations that are pertinent to your business’s overall success. Before signing a new warehouse lease, continue below to learn the top 3 most commonly-overlooked factors to finding the perfect warehouse lease for your enterprise, and use these factors when comparing potential warehouses!
Warehouse Leasing Tips and Considerations
Warehouses are not the same as your traditional office building or complex. They are larger and taller in size, plus they retain a much different set of systems and building features. For these reasons, you will need to set your focus on a much different set of priorities than you would if you were searching for new office space. Below are the top 3 you should consider before signing into a new warehouse lease.
Cubic Square Footage
When you are comparing potential office space real estate, square footage is a primary factor on the table. But with warehouses, square footage is not the only important factor. Warehouses offer more space than just the floors, so you must also make cubic square footage an area of consideration. Cubic square footage measures the overall volume of the warehouse space, from floor to ceiling and everything in between. Since warehouses store and stack heavy loads of inventory, total volume accessibility is imperative to your business’s operations. Interior heights, widths, and floor lengths are all significant elements to factor into your final decision.
Storage Climate Control and HVAC
Warehouses hold inventory or assets, making interior climate control a top priority in the leasing terms. You cannot assume that the warehouse you wish to lease is already equipment with the right systems and features in place to deliver adequate and consistent climates. Heating and cooling units, indoor air quality and humidifier systems, and similar technologies that provide a controlled climate are factors to consider and features to look for when on the hunt for a new warehouse space.
Building Security and Safety
As mentioned, warehouses are storage for important assets and inventories, so building security and safety are simply a fixed cost. Technologies and features like fire alarm and suppression systems, ADA compliancy, building alarms, security cameras, keypad punch codes, in-house security personnel, 24 hour law enforcement patrol, reinforced doors and windows, and full coverage liability insurance are all important safety and security considerations for leasing a new warehouse.
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