Storage consultancy : Outdoor storage sites. Hardstand & yardspace. For rent, license or sale
Ideal for QSR, Servo, carwash or childcare etc (STCA) Note: Zoning is residential (City of Casey) Total area available 13,000 sqm approx in 2 allotments. Currently fenced access from Evans Road. For further details please contact Rob Stanley-Turner +61 418 982 000 or  rob@boxcom.com.au Click here for Google earth Otherwise,…
Leasing EOI  743-757 Deception Bay Rothwell, Qld This shop is available for lease in this high-performing retail centre in Rothwell, north of Brisbane, right at the entrance, leading into the centre, and opposite officeworks and across the road from one of the best fast food precincts in Queensland. Shop area 366…
Formerly site proposed Master's Hardware store. This greenfield site to suit LFR, petrol or fast food or immediate temporary yardspace ready for outdoor storage, caravan, equipment, portables, trucks, earth moving etc. STCA The total land area is 19300 sqm. Ground leasehold rental dependant upon requirment size and lease tenure…
Forrestdale WA, Perth Metro, hardstand (surface crushed rock/recycle material) for lease. Flat in most areas, huge plot area available up to 10000 sqm. Rentals cost effective & vary up depending upon lease term by around $25 per sqm per annum plus GST for land will give the best guide.…
Roxburgh Park-Vic-excess car park-for-lease-suitable container-or truck storage-500-sqm approx.-short or long term easy access. Rental varies upon lease term. Suitable for low impact use' for un-stacked containers or vehicles. Excellent access to Hume freeway. Short term storage rentals up to $75 per sqm per annum plus GST. (please note, not the…
Spotswood hardstand for lease Areas range from 700 sqm- 3700 sqm depending up what is available. Rentals vary up depending upon lease term. Power for lights etc available in some units. Suitable for low impact use' for un-stacked containers or vehicles. Excellent access via Westgate freeway or Melbourne Road. Short…
Altona/laverton hardstand (crushed rock/ashpalt base) for lease. Areas range from 2000-14000 sqm depending up what is available. Rentals vary up depending upon Lease term. Power & water available available in some units. Suitable for low impact use' including stacked container 2 high. Excellent access Westgate freeway. Short term storage rentals…
743 – 757 Deception Bay Road, Rothwell Qld Pad site available for lease in this high-performing retail centre This site is designated for development for shop, showroom, or restaurant with drive through (STCA) The pad site area area 2475 sqm approx, which potentially will allow one numerous tenancies Other retailers…
37-39 Sheilds Street, Cairns Queensland 4870 City Centre site opposite and adjoining the Cairns Central Shopping and the famous, Cairns Grand Hotel. This site is designated for development for shop, showroom, office, restaurant (STCA) Total site area 3100 sqm approx. Zoned Precinct 1-City Centre Core & Princple Centre Zone (Cairns…
Hardstand, yardspace ready for outdoor storage, with site permit for containers available for long term lease. Tenncies available between 3000-to 6100 sqm approx. Industrial zoned & DA approved for shipping container storage and other uses. Heavy duty surfacing with limestone & ashphalt profiles. The Kwinana Port shipping terminal nearby…
Outdoor hardstand or yardspace storage fenced. This site is especially ideal for short term or immediate storage of bulky items, including shipping containers, portable buildings, even automotive storage such as trucks or cars, perhaps storage of boxed recycling material or large heavy duty building materials ready for construction delivery as…
21 kms north-east of Perth CBD, this outdoor hardstand or yardspace storage open business hours and fenced with cameras 24/7. This site is especially ideal for short term or immediate storage of bulky items like shown, including shipping containers, portable buildings, even automotive storage such as trucks or cars, perhaps…
Formerly site proposed for Master's Hardware store. This site will be terrific for retailing into Mandurah and Perths southern suburbs such as Rockingham etc therefore will suit potential redevelopment into a mixed use centre or large-format centre (STCA). However today its great for holding income with the storage of caravans…
Formerly site proposed Master's Hardware store. This greenfield site may suit temporary yardspace ready for outdoor storage, caravan, equipment, portables, trucks, earth moving STCA etc. The total land area is 3312 sqm. Rental dependant upon requirment size and lease tenure and STCA Mixed use zone further details. Rob Stanley-Turner 0418982000 …
Formerly site proposed Master's Hardware store. This greenfield site may suit temporary yardspace ready for outdoor storage, caravan, equipment, portables, trucks, earth moving etc. The total land area is 31090 sqm. Rental dependant upon requirment size and lease tenure and STCA Mixed use zone further details. For sale at $3.75M…
This Spotlight Hervey Bay retail centre has only be open for just over a year and from day one this centre has been absolutely trading its head off. It hosts national retailers Anaconda, Harris Scarf, Spotlight and Good guys, along with a host of others The last remaining premises is…
The owners of this site are currently planning a new development. Until that's done, the hard stand is available for lease for short or long term. The site is central in this busy area and would be ideal to facilitate easy access to bulk storage such as vehicles, containers, stockpiles…
Postcode | Suburb | Type | Land or Building | Area sqm | Use |
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3975 | Lynbrook | Lease | Land | 13000sqm | Storage |
4022 | Rothwell | Lease | Land | 2475sqm | Mixed Use |
2870 | Parkes | Sale | Land | 19300sqm | Mixed Use |
6112 | Forrestdale | Lease | Land | 10000sqm | Storage |
3064 | Roxburgh Park | Lease | Land | 500sqm | Storage |
3015 | Spotswood | Lease | Land | 1000sqm | Storage |
3025 | Altona West | Lease | Land | 14000sqm | Storage |
4022 | Rothwell | Lease | Land | 2475sqm | Mixed Use |
4870 | Cairns | Lease | Land | 3099sqm | Mixed Use |
6167 | Kwinana | Lease | Land | 3000sqm | Storage |
6106 | North Welshpool | Lease | Land | 1784sqm | Storage |
6058 | Forestfield | Lease | Land | 1000sqm | Storage |
6210 | Mandurah | Lease | Land | 42835sqm | Storage |
4814 | Garbutt | Lease | Land | 33121sqm | Storage |
4670 | Townsville | Sale | Land | 31090sqm | Mixed Use |
4655 | Hervey Bay | Lease | Land | 438m2 | Mixed Use |
4122 | Mt Gravatt East, Brisbane | Sale | Land | 17950sqm | Mixed Use |
2 future pad sites for QSR with drive thru or shop showroom Lynbrook Vic STCA, adjoining 7/11
08/12/2024
Shop or showroom for Lease: Rothwell QLD: Absolute highway frontage within LFR centre & opposite QSR precinct
08/11/2024
Land for retail development sale or lease: Parkes, NSW: Absolute highway frontage. To suit most uses inc LFR QSR IOS or carwash
24/09/2024
Land for lease or pre-lease new development: Forrestdale WA. To suit most uses inc LFR QSR Servo & IOS.
01/09/2024
Hardstand for lease: Roxburgh Park, Vic: Excess carpark. Suitable for Truck or container storage:
29/08/2024
Hardstand for lease. Spotswood, Vic. Suits for container equipment or vehicle storage.
14/08/2024
Hardstand for lease. Spotswood & Altona West & Laverton Vic. Varying sizes up 14,000 sqm
12/08/2024
Pad site & QSR drive thru for lease: Rothwell, Qld: Within large format & speciality centre for lease (actually, pre-lease)
12/04/2024
Pad site for QSR drive thru or shop Cairns, Qld, CBD, for lease (actually, pre-lease)
02/03/2024
Hardstand for lease: Kwinana, WA: Great for container or equipment storage.
30/11/2023
Hardstand storage for lease, Welshpool North WA
05/11/2023
Hardstand storage for lease Perth Airport Vicinity WA
25/07/2023
Land for retail development sale or lease: Furnissdale WA: Cnr Pinjara Road & Furnissdale Road
17/07/2023
Land for lease or building pre-lease Garbutt (Townsville), Qld. main road site to suit outdoor storage retail STCA etc
17/07/2023
Land for retail development sale or lease: Townsville (Deeragun), Qld, Main road site to suit QSR, LFR, IOR industrial outdoor storage
11/07/2023
Shop or showroom for lease Hervey Bay, Qld. Last remaining tenancy in retail centre anchored by big brands
14/06/2023
Site for Lease Mt Gravatt Qld: Looking for long term pre-lease or short term hardstand storage
14/05/2020
Hardstand Investing overview
Hardstand & shipping container storage– (almost) everything you need to know
Let’s start at the beginning: what is hardstand storage?
Hardstand storage is a type of commercial real estate, like warehouses and offices. ’Hardstand’ means a constructed surface built over land that is specifically designed for loading and storing goods. This constructed surface is usually hardened concrete, but can also be asphalt or crushed rock.
Hardstand can be leased, licensed or purchased. Containers can be leased or purchased. Sometimes container manufacturers provide a leaseback arrangement to approved customers. Recent advances in the design and functionality of shipping containers mean that hardstand is suitable for many new uses.
The compelling advantage of hardstand storage is its low-cost—it’s convenient, cheap storage space.
There are a few common types of hardstand storage
Hardstand storage is used by many different types of industries
Hardstand storage is used world-wide by many different types of companies because it’s quick to set up and easy to organise.
Hardstand storage is often urgently needed by retailers, wholesalers and importers whose supply chains have been temporarily disrupted.
Here are a few examples of users of hardstand storage, but there are many more.
Hardstand storage is suitable for different types of storage containers.
Shipping containers are one of the most common items stored on hardstand
Shipping containers began to be used in the U.S.A. in the early 1960s. The stacking abilities provided terrific economies of scale for transportation of supplies on ships. The ships HMM Algeciras, HMM Copenhagen, HMM Dublin and HMM Gdansk, which tie for the title of the largest container ship in the world, can carry almost 24,000 20ft-containers.
These days, containers are used world-wide, without actually being shipped. They’re also used for applications other than storage; their compactness, strength and stacking ability mean they make fantastic houses, cafes, emergency shelters and nurseries.
Hardstand as an investment
In property investments, one thing is always true: it’s the land itself that appreciates or go up in value, and it’s the improvements, like buildings, that depreciate, or go down in value. This is good news for investing in hardstand storage—there’s almost nothing to depreciate, except for the concrete surface.
When a hardstand site is leased for shipping or stackable container storage, it’s similar to a multi-storey building. More lettable area is created by each layer of stacked container.
Hardstand offers compelling value for investors, as compared with traditional warehousing. Many users of hardstand require long-term leases, and this is also great for investors.
I can’t think of a better investment than hardstand storage. I see it as comparable to where the self-storage industry was thirty years ago—ready to rocket.
Hardstand: Covid19 and beyond
in 2020, the world experienced unprecedented changes to consumer behaviour and retail networks because of the Covid19 pandemic. This caused seismic disruption to established supply chains in a host of industries.
This disruption has caused many businesses to seek urgent storage solutions for raw materials, products at various stages of production and end products. Service industries like airlines and food services also needed storage for equipment, shop fittings and office fit outs. Infrastructure builds by state governments, designed as economic stimulus, need sites for equipment and building supplies storage, and landing sites to manage and facilitate major construction. We are also witnessing exponential growth in a whole new industry: sustainable power generation. This will lead to increased storage requirements for machinery and battery storage, in particular. The proliferation of household solar panels feeding greater energy into the grid and starting to overwhelm it, it is easy to see that the grid managers will need to start stabilising the grid with more and more battery storage. I envisage these sites will be setup similar to this Tesla battery storage facility being built in Mooroolbool Victoria
Growth in the industry
We are also witnessing exponential growth in a whole new industry: sustainable power generation. This will lead to increased storage requirements for machinery and battery storage, in particular.
The proliferation of household solar panels feeding greater energy into the grid and starting to overwhelm it, it is easy to see that the grid managers will need to start stabilising the grid with more and more battery storage.
I envisage these sites will be setup similar to this Tesla battery storage facility being built in Mooroolbool Victoria.
This disruption, though, is only a taste of the uncertainty that economies will face in the years and decades ahead. The effect of all this disruption will be an increased requirement for storage of all types.
Choosing the right hardstand for any purpose
Hardstand can offer a compelling and exciting storage solution for many different types of containers.
Hardstand storage is incredibly cost-effective when compared to other forms of storage. Hardstand rentals can be 10% of the cost of a similar area of warehousing space.
Hardstand has its constraints, though. Hardstand storage is, in most part, external space and exposed to weather, anything else that is airborne like dust, insects, and extremes of temperature. This may be fine for machinery, vehicles or equipment, but it won’t work so well for perishables or stock which is susceptible to environmental damage.
Before choosing a hardstand storage site, it’s important to understand the type of concrete construction and the load-carrying capacity of the hardstand itself. The hardstand needs to accommodate forklifts and other heavy vehicles as well numerous shipping containers at any one time. Isolation and expansion joints, which allow movement of the slab itself, will also enter the calculations. When choosing any kind of real estate, location is paramount, and hardstand is no exception. Access to major roads, ports or rail lines is often required, as is being strategically located to the containers’ point-of-origin and destination.
Box Commercial are storage specialists
We’ve been selling storage properties since 1992, and we can offer sites for the bulk storage of almost anything.
As long as you can park it or drop it onto a site, we can help you.
As estate agents, we’ve reached out to owners of hardstand and storage-suitable Greenfield sites across Australia. You can check out our current listing above, but this is only a sample from our pool of sites. Sites can be available quickly if need be.
Please call us to discuss your storage requirements.