Ask most people what limits a garage, and they will say square footage. Ask anyone who has actually tried to put a lift in one, or store a coach, or build a second level over half the floor, and they will tell you the real limit is overhead.
At The Hide Out, clear height above the slab is twenty-five feet.
Three trucks. Stacked. In a small suite.
That is not a hypothetical. There is a triple-height lift running in one of the smaller suites right now, with three vehicles stacked on it. Not three sports cars. Trucks.
Most conversations about vehicle lifts stop at two. Two is what a residential garage will take, and two is what most buildings in this market are built for. Sixteen and eighteen feet of clearance are the numbers that typically get advertised around here. Those work fine for a boat and a couple of cars. They do not stack three.
Twenty-five feet does.
Height is the one thing nobody can add later
You can re-pour a floor. You can move a wall, change a door, rewire a panel. You cannot raise a roof.
With this much overhead, a suite will take:
- A triple-height lift with three vehicles on it, trucks included
- A Class A coach with the roof air on it, doors closed
- A concrete mezzanine over part of the floor, with standing headroom above and below
- A scissor lift working inside the building instead of a ladder
The mezzanine is structural, and it is rated to be used
Because the height is there, a mezzanine is a real floor rather than a compromise. At The Hide Out it is poured concrete, engineered as part of the building, not a wood platform bolted to studs.
It is engineered for 120 pounds per square foot of live load. A typical parking structure is designed around 40. That is three times the rating, which is why owners put offices, lounges and real storage up there instead of holiday decorations.
One owner looked at a straight mezzanine and asked for an L instead, which picked up a meaningful amount of usable space upstairs. That change is possible because the shell is engineered to carry it.
Your floor gets poured after you buy it
The slab in your suite is poured after the purchase, not before. Drain placement, outlet locations, the pitch of the floor, where the lift anchors go, where the underground plumbing runs: all of it is decided while the space is still insulation board and a grid of tubing.
Because the plumbing is individual to each suite, some owners put the bathroom and wash tub up on the mezzanine instead of the ground floor, which buys back parking space downstairs.
You are not adapting to a layout somebody else chose. You are specifying one.
Compare the finished number, not the starting number
This is the part that gets missed. Every development in this category quotes a shell price. The number that actually matters is what that shell costs you by the time it is usable.
A Hide Out shell already includes:
- A 100-amp electrical panel
- Independent gas service to the suite
- Gas-fired radiant in-floor heat
- An independent fiber internet line
- Your own water meter
- A concrete mezzanine engineered for 120 pounds per square foot
Those are your utilities, metered to you, not shared through an association. Heat is in the price. Air conditioning is an option you add at build-out if you want it.
We are not going to tell you what anyone else charges. We will tell you to write down what you would have to add after you sign, and then compare the two finished numbers instead of the two starting ones. That is the only comparison that means anything.
How the building is put together
Reinforced concrete block runs between every suite, floor to roof. Not studs and drywall. That is what keeps the building quiet, and it is what people notice first when they put a hand on the wall.
The parking lot is concrete, not asphalt, so Minnesota freeze-thaw does not turn it into a pothole budget every spring. There is no exterior siding to maintain or replace.
Most of what goes into the building comes from within seventy-five miles of the site. All of the structural steel is fabricated within two miles of it.
Where it sits
The Hide Out is at 5000 Odessa Ave NE in St. Michael, Minnesota, minutes off I-94. Gas, food, a movie theater and a golf course are all inside a couple of miles.
Behind the building are roughly ten acres of pond, wetland and wooded hillside. A utility easement means that ground will never be built on. Suites facing that direction look at nothing else. Deer, turkeys and sandhill cranes use it daily.
Come stand in one
Ceiling height does not photograph. It is obvious the moment you walk through a door and look up at three trucks stacked over your head.
Sales offices are open in Unit D14.