I’ve got a decent sized shop in a rural area that I started my first company out of. It was a fab shop and it’s not exactly beautiful to look at given the hundreds of thousands of pounds of steel that have traveled through it. It’s also a dead-simple building. Open space, no office, insulation on the ceiling, overhead doors, and that’s pretty much it. But, I was recently approached by a local welder to rent it from me. It was an idea I had been toying with already, but it got me wondering: Is there merit to building a super simple product like this ($65/sq ft all-in) for the guys that get booted out of flex parks? Most parks don’t want auto guys, welders, and even with a push for 3 phase power, I wonder how many folks actually want light manufacturing in their park. Is there a number at which you could build/acquire for these guys? Curious what others have seen. I visited a park just like this for a new client who wants to add more buildings. They had no paving, just rock, and one swale to handle drainage. There weren’t even gutters on the buildings. They had homemade canopies over the personnel doors and a park FULL of guys doing dirty work. My price to add additional buildings, perform basic site work and add a yard was around $65/ft. Curious to hear thoughts from others.

Hey everyone! I'm the co-founder and owner of ProTrade Garages, focused on developing small-bay industrial properties. We've completed our first 15,000 SF project and purchased and fully entitled a second 5.5 acre site to develop another 30,000 SF ProTrade Garage. We're now focused on growing and scaling the platform into new markets. I'm looking to connect with developers, investors, landowners, and industry professionals interested in sharing ideas, exploring opportunities, and collaborating on future projects. Always open to making new connections. www.protradegarages.com or my email is brett@protradegarages.com.

Curious what’s actually working for everyone on the marketing / lease-up side. Here’s what I’ve done so far on my small bay project (4 units, 20x40): 1. Paid for LoopNet Listing ($400 quarterly) → this did work. Landed an out-of-town cabinet shop tenant from it. 2. Facebook Marketplace + local FB group posts → lots of interest, but lower quality leads. 3. Road signage at the property. Been running these adds 90 days during completion of construction and only have one tenant to show for it. Biggest issue I’m running into: I’ve had multiple strong “yes” prospects that end up ghosting. - Two pre-lease contractors were very interested → construction took ~30 days → both ghosted. - One luxury storage type guy literally shook my hand, said he’d take it and prepay a year → then disappeared a week later. So I’m trying to tighten up: - how I handle inbound leads - how I follow up - and maybe where I’m even advertising I’ll attach my LoopNet listing + a FB Marketplace example. Questions for the group: - What platforms are actually producing real tenants for you? - Are you doing anything different to lock people in during lease-up? (deposits, soft commitments, etc.) - Any tips on filtering out the tire-kickers early? Appreciate any feedback — still dialing this in.

Basecamp is a community built for you. I have enjoyed meeting many of you and look forward to continuing to meet new people. We have experienced great growth over the last 4-5 months. Now I would like to take a step back and ask you what you need from the community to be more successful. Let me know what you are getting out of the community, and what you would like to see more of. I look forward to hearing from each of you. Cheers! wS

Pouring foundation walls on our first pad and have the second pad compacted. We worked out a deal with our site contractor on how to handle rock and thankful we did as we hit a decent sized vein. Never enough contingency for any project. Good steady interest and have multiple LOI’s in place. Interesting mix so far of users and most tend to want 2 bays.