700 Block Storage

This is a performance-driven self-storage asset. ~70,000 SF of net rentable space optimized for revenue per square foot. 500+ units with a strategic, diversified unit mix. Multi-story design maximizing vertical density in a constrained footprint that single-story drive-up could not have supported financially. Urban infill self-storage construction in Salt Lake City lives or dies on building footprint efficiency, and 700 Block was designed to extract every rentable foot from a parcel where land cost made horizontal layout impossible.

Climate-controlled interior systems throughout. HVAC capacity sized to the SLC summer and winter design temperatures, with insulated wall panels and roof assembly engineered for the freeze-thaw cycle that defines northern Utah construction. Interior corridors run wide enough for full-size move-in carts without crowding tenant flow on the busy weekend hours. Elevator capacity matched to the unit mix on the upper floors so move-ins and move-outs do not bottleneck during stabilization.

Layout engineered for efficient circulation, accessibility, and operational flow. Every floor pays for itself on the rentable math. Unit mix worked back from SLC market rent comps and absorption curves, not pulled from a vendor catalog. Hallway widths set to the unit-mix geometry that the trade area actually rents. Corner units, large-format units, and the high-margin 5x5 wall positions are all spec'd into the layout from the structural design forward, not retrofitted in.

The structural package is a pre-engineered multi-story steel building system engineered to the Salt Lake City Seismic Design Category D, with the connection design, bracing, and floor-load detailing that the Wasatch Front fault zone requires. Concrete-on-deck floors engineered for the live loads of stored goods, not standard office loads. Fire suppression engineered into the structure from day one rather than added later. Stamped construction documents handed to civil and architectural partners early enough to keep permit and site work in lockstep with the steel fabrication calendar.

Every decision, from unit mix to layout, was made with one objective: maximize rentable efficiency without overbuilding the asset. Multi-story self-storage in dense urban markets only pencils when the design respects the math both ways: aggressive enough on rentable density to justify the higher per-foot build cost, conservative enough on operating systems that the facility does not bleed NOI on HVAC, elevator maintenance, or fire-system service calls for the life of the asset.

At Wasatch Structures, projects like 700 Block represent the standard for Class A urban self-storage construction. The Salt Lake City build environment is unforgiving on schedule, cost, and code, and the developers who keep choosing Wasatch as a self-storage builder for the SLC market are choosing on track record, not on the bid being the cheapest.