Every building in this category publishes a ceiling height. Very few people know what to do with the number once they have it.
Here is the translation.
The heights
Clear height at The Hide Out is twenty-five feet. Clear height means above the slab, with nothing in the way.
Sixteen to eighteen feet is what typically gets advertised in this market. At eighteen feet you can run a four-post lift and stack two vehicles, and that is where most of the category stops.
What that height does
It stacks three.
That is not a calculation. There is a triple-height lift running in one of the smaller suites right now — space 12 — with three vehicles on it. They are trucks, not compact cars. The smaller suite, stacking three. If you have ever stood under a stack like that you know it changes how you think about the footprint entirely: the floor stops being the limit.
The standard module is 40 feet deep by 22 feet wide inside. Forty feet of depth fits two vehicle lengths comfortably, which means four vehicles on the ground without a lift and considerably more once you go vertical.
The tall things
Height is also what lets a suite take the vehicles that normally do not fit anywhere:
- A Class A coach, with the door closed and clearance overhead
- An enclosed trailer, stored hitched rather than dropped in a yard
- A boat on a trailer, without unstepping anything
- A lifted truck on a lift, which is where most eighteen-foot buildings run out of room
There is a practical detail that tells you how much room there is up there. To reach the ceiling from the mezzanine, you drive a scissor lift up onto the mezzanine deck. The mezzanine carries it — it is concrete rated at 120 pounds per square foot.
Why nobody builds it this way
Height is expensive. Every additional foot is more block, more steel, more wall to insulate, more building to heat. It is the first thing cut when a developer is working toward a starting price, and it is invisible in a listing photograph.
It is also the one thing you can never add later. You can finish a floor, build a mezzanine, add air conditioning and rewire a suite at any point in the next thirty years. You cannot raise a roof.
Bring a tape measure
We mean that. People arrive skeptical of the number and leave having measured it. Come look up at a stack of three trucks in a suite somebody actually uses, and then decide what fits.
See the suites or get in touch. The sales offices are open in Unit D14, 5000 Odessa Ave NE, St. Michael.