Our Storage Facility Experience: 3 Focus Areas For Success

February 18, 2020

Storage facilities are a growing market, and many companies are expanding their footprint to meet the demand. This boom isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon. Downsizing is increasingly common for baby boomers, who are trading their family homes for apartments in more desirable locations, and many young people are choosing minimal lifestyles over more traditional-sized homes.

We’ve worked with several storage companies, including CubeSmart and Extra Space Storage, and like most of our projects, our expertise enables the building owner to focus on their priorities, while we manage the details to help keep the project on time and on budget.

Given our experience, HomeStar Storage, a provider of self-storage for households and businesses, reached out for help. We were initially targeted based on our background with commercial real estate and experience in managing new construction, additions, and renovations. Located in Naples, FL, HomeStar plans to construct new facilities across the country, and we have partnered with them specifically to develop locations in Cincinnati, OH and Orlando, FL.

In our experience, there are three key points of focus for success:

  1. Budget: This is always one of the highest priorities – both setting an appropriate budget upfront and then tracking against it. Because HomeStar Storage brought us on early in the process, we were able to spend the first few months reviewing and correcting project contracts and finalizing SOWs, leveraging our extensive cost estimating experience.
  2. Timeline: Staying on track with a project schedule is crucial. Our team provides oversight to continually monitor and adjust the variables within a schedule as soon as possible to avoid any delays. We will also ensure all post-construction activities are managed quickly and efficiently. We have been consistently managing the timeline to help HomeStar reach their expected end date.
  3. Focus: We provide management services starting from site selection, into the conceptual phase, construction, and through move-in to allow our clients to focus on their business. A new project doesn’t slow down day-to-day business needs, especially for a company seeking a nationwide expansion, like HomeStar Storage. Our support and focus on the project details enables owners to confidently handle a variety of other priorities for their business.

The new HomeStar Storage locations are slated to be completed in early summer 2020. Keep an eye out for our updates as we continue to make progress. We are excited for the next few months!

Testimonials

Corporate Renovation for DPS Group - Conshohocken, PA

Due to the extreme pace our business has been growing, we were in need of new office space sooner than later. However, we didn’t have the bandwidth to manage the process internally. The FGX Group was able to get started immediately with assembling an overall project budget and schedule in order to set proper expectations, particularly important in today’s real estate climate. He was instrumental in design oversight, and assembling the balance of the project team including the general contractor, IT related vendors, the furniture dealer, and all other pertinent firms. We are thrilled to be in our new space and couldn’t be more grateful for having Frank to assist us with the process so we could concentrate on continuing to grow our business.

Ryan McDonough, Senior Vice President – Project Operations, DPS Group

Self Storage Renovation Projects for Home Star Storage - Various Locations

As someone who works in self storage conversions, I work with The FGX Group on all my major projects. Unlike ground-up construction, conversion projects often have unexpected circumstances and last-minute surprises that don't necessarily jump out from the beginning of the project, even with careful planning. Working with The FGX Group, I know our team is ready for the unexpected in each project – whatever that may be. We appreciate working closely with them to bring more well-built storage projects to fruition on-time and on-budget up and down the eastern United States.

Joseph Murphy, Chief Operating Officer, Home Star Storage

Renovations to Children's Dental Management - Philadelphia, PA

Frank Gallagher and The FGX Group were instrumental in assisting me to assemble the project team and formulate a plan to complete our new Orthodontics and Surgery Center suites in Philadelphia. With Frank’s help in managing the contractors, various vendors, and coordination activities with the landlord, it allowed me to concentrate on other responsibilities at CDM. Frank has a knack to bring everyone together to focus on one goal. I would work with him again.

Jim DeFruscio – Children’s Dental Management

Renovation of Medical Office for Pure Dental Brands - Upper Darby, PA

From my perspective, here is what The FGX Group did that helped us achieve a successful build out of our new office location: Their contract spelled out all of the responsibilities that they would own, and they carefully broke down all of the job functions and steps with milestones; they also made it clear what were their vs. our tasks; they outlined the project timeline and costs and lived by them; they were 100% successful as a project manager because they kept us on track and had excellent communication and follow-up skills; they owned a number of key tasks around permitting and working with the local town/city that we could not have known about or handled – and they were done successfully; and they escalated issues when appropriate and prepared us in advance of issues, so that when they came up, we could quickly resolve.

The results were excellent – the office is beautiful, and it has helped us grow our business!

Frank Coliano, Chief Executive Officer, Pure Dental Brands

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Contact

Address

26 Treaty Dr, Wayne, PA 19087

Email

frankgallagher@thefgxgroup.com

Phone

 610.331.6354

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