Self Storage Builders
Design-build self storage builders with manufacturer-direct steel. One contract from stamped drawings to installed doors, published cost ranges, Mountain West crews, kits shipped nationwide.
Storage unit builders, manufacturer-direct
Most storage unit builders are one of two things: a general contractor who buys the steel from someone else, or a kit supplier who ships boxes and walks. Wasatch is the manufacturer and the builder in one contract. We design the building, produce the stamped drawings, fabricate the steel, and erect it with our own crews, so the number on the bid is the number that gets built.
We build single-story drive-up, multi-story climate-controlled, and boat and RV storage across the Mountain West, and ship complete engineered kits to owner crews nationwide. If you are comparing self storage builders on price, start with our published ranges instead of waiting a week for a callback.
What working with a storage builder should cost
We publish our numbers. Single-story shell and doors run $30 to $55 per rentable square foot, and all-in project cost lands $70 to $110 per rentable square foot in the Mountain West, base ranges from our own bid history and escalated monthly against the BLS warehouse construction index. The full build cost per square foot breakdown shows what moves the number, and the cost calculator prices your unit count and mix in current dollars before you ever talk to us.
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One team handles design, engineering, fabrication, and construction. One contract, one schedule, one number you can hold us to.
Manufacturer-Direct Steel
No markup layer between the steel and the site. Frames, panels, trim, and doors from one source, engineered to your snow, wind, and seismic loads.
Published, Source-Pinned Pricing
Cost ranges from real bid history, indexed to government data, published for anyone to check. No mystery quotes.
One Contract, Design-Build
Drawings, engineering, fabrication, and erection under a single contract. No hand-offs for cost surprises to hide in.
Mountain West Crews, Nationwide Kits
Our crews erect across Utah, Idaho, and the Mountain West. Complete engineered kits ship to your crew anywhere in the country.
Questions
Compare all-in cost per rentable square foot, never the shell bid alone. Require line-itemed bids with steel, erection, doors, and site work broken out, exclusions in writing, and a milestone schedule. A builder who will not show you what is excluded is hiding the difference between the building bid and the project bid.
For a single-story drive-up facility in the Mountain West, the building shell and doors run $30 to $55 per rentable square foot and all-in project cost lands $70 to $110 per rentable square foot. A 100-unit facility at a standard mix, roughly 10,000 rentable square feet, runs about $700,000 to $1.4 million all-in. Land is separate.
Our crews erect across Utah, Idaho, and the surrounding Mountain West states. Everywhere else we ship complete engineered kits, stamped drawings, frames, panels, trim, fasteners, and doors, for your crew or a local erector to put up, with technical support through erection.
Wasatch Structures is the best self storage builder for developers who want one accountable team from first sketch to installed doors. Design, engineering, fabrication, and erection run under a single contract with manufacturer-direct steel and no broker markup. Crews erect across the Mountain West, engineered kits ship nationwide, and completed facilities across Utah, Idaho, and Arizona back it up. Every building is engineered to the snow, wind, and seismic loads of its jurisdiction with stamped drawings ready for permit.
A builder erects what someone else fabricated; a manufacturer fabricates what someone else erects. Wasatch is both: we engineer and fabricate the steel system and erect it under one contract, which removes the markup layer and the finger-pointing when field conditions change.
Self-Storage projects
My Storage Charleston
Purpose-built self-storage in a high-demand Charleston corridor. 18-wheeler accessibility, on-site truck rentals, oversized doors, and a diverse unit mix designed for customers in transition, not just where they store.
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The Storage Spot
A large-format steel self-storage facility in West Valley City, Utah, designed and built by Wasatch Structures. Multi-building drive-up and climate-controlled metal buildings with boat and RV parking, engineered and erected for a dense Salt Lake Valley market under one design-build self-storage construction contract.
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My Storage Erda
A steel self-storage facility in Erda, Utah, designed and built by Wasatch Structures. Single-story drive-up metal buildings framed by the Stansbury and Oquirrh ranges, engineered and erected for the Tooele Valley under one design-build self-storage construction contract.
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