Cold Storage Warehouse for Lease Or Rent - Dayton Metro

Last Updated April 20, 2023

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If you are searching for Cold Storage Warehouse for lease or rent, Dayton, you've come to the right place. In this article, we cover three key topics, including:

  • An overview of cold storage warehousing.
  • An offer of our professional services to help you identify and acquire your next warehouse of any type, including Cold Storage Warehouse for lease or rent in Dayton, from the best listed and unlisted sources. It's what we do!
  • A few examples of properties - like the ones in this category - in the form of a survey. That level of information and more would be a part of the search we would conduct for your specific requirements. Skip directly to the search/survey section for this page.

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We've seen a significant amount of traffic on our site involving cold storage(cooler and/or freezer)-equipped warehouses for Lease Or Rent. We've pursued enough of these opportunities that we feel we've established a bit of a specialty in the area. We update our survey of properties periodically. As with any set of properties, their status is very dynamic, so expect us to have to research for you anyway to make sure things are still available and are what they seem to be. Unfortunately, Cold Storage space is in high demand, so you should generally expect some twists and turns as we work to find you what you need - including possible retrofitting of an existing warehouse with the type of refrigeration that you require. We’ll identify the best listed and unlisted Cold Storage Warehouses for Lease Or Rent in the Dayton Metro at no charge for you. Let us do the searching for you - it's what we do! If you need cold storage warehouse space in the Dayton Metro area, please contact us for more detailed assistance. In the mean time, read on for more information about Cold Storage warehouses.



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Southwestern Ohio, where Dayton is located, is part of several agricultural belts, including the Grain Belt and Corn Belt, large areas where soybeans and corn are grown for human or animal consumption. In addition, Dayton is a cosmopolitan city with numerous local, national, and international restaurants. In terms of distribution for supermarkets and convenience stores, it is also an excellent place to start distributing because of the lower cost of living and the lower initial investment. Grocery e-commerce is also a good business for this city, which is quite close to Cincinnati, OH, and a few dozen miles from Columbus, OH. If you are into this business and want to invest in Dayton, buying or renting a warehouse with cold storage is best.

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There are a wide range of uses for refrigerated space in warehouses. This includes things like Food Preparation and Storage at various stages of the value chain, vaccines and other drugs, plants, and, interestingly, more obscure items like document and art. For completeness, this can also include display of articles at temperature, but this is more likely at the retail level.

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There are many complications with regard to Cold Storage. It tends to be expensive in terms of building, operating and maintaining. Your Cold Storage space is often built of necessity much like a building within a building because of the rigorous requirements. It must be sealed and extensively insulated. You must have ingress and egress - probably for humans and product from inside the building, and then if you are a volume operation you will likely need access through a dock directly connecting your cold storage space in warehouse with your cold storage transportation. All of these doors must be insulated and sealed as well. The space must be refrigerated throughout with temperatures carefully regulated. IF you need to store foods that require different temperatures, then you must create separators and regulate temperature differently for each area. If you are concerned about cross contamination between food types - like, say, you are doing some food processing in your cold space or for some other reason - then you must be able to certify what has and is being done in the area you are using and how it has been cared for. You'll probably need to be able to provide proof that what you've stored has been maintained at specified temperatures. These are some of the many complications...

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First principles - building out and maintaining Cold Storage capability can be an expensive proposition. For this reason at a minimum, unused Cold Storage space tends to be scarce.

  • Sometimes you will find facilities - often large - that have been vacated and are available to buy or lease. Figuring out if this type of facility is usable can be an undertaking. You will need to assess a wide range of issues - refrigeration methods, insulation quality and status, temperature ranges and divisibility, etc., etc.. You likely won't know exactly why the prior occupant decided to move out, so, of course, take care.
  • If you have the scale, you will probably want to at least consider acquiring land and building. Of course, this requires more capital investment, so it needs to fit within the financial strategy of your company. This method should be expected to be better for your company from a COGS perspective, but it's possible you'll pay a price in flexibility over the long term. Build your own is not a decision to be taken lightly.
  • Another is to find someone who's built it for themselve and determine whether or not they have space they aren't using and lease some space from them.
  • Another is to find Cold Storage equipped space already built that is for sale or lease and have your Broker help you lease or buy the space.
  • In the area of lease, there are people who build buildings to sub-divide the space and lease portions of the space to tenants. If this includes cold storage space, this could be your answer.
  • There are also 3rd Party Logistics providers that provide and/or specialize in cold storage and will sell you cold storage as a part of a logistics package.

There are likely other options, and any of these may be an option for you.

If you expect to lease cold storage space, divisibility of that space can be quite challenging depending upon your requirements. Simply equipping a stand-alone facility for a single occupant with a range of refrigeration requirements isn't a picnic either. Available cold storage space must be divided up to provide potential tenants with what they need in terms of space and temperature. If the Tenant's requirements are complicated, this can raise the expense levels significantly. Chances are good that the landlord will be asking you to commit to a longer-term lease or pony up some of the capital expense up front to accommodate your needs - or both.

It can be possible to retrofit cold storage into an existing facility - although it might not be "pretty."

If you simply require non-freezing refrigerated space, then you can often just build an enclosure within the subject building and equip that enclosure properly. You need to determine whether or not you need the refrigeration to include some or all of your dock area.

Freezing space is a different matter altogether. Retrofitting a large freezer space within an existing building will likely require demo-ing that portion of your foundation and re-installing foundation to a new specification. At that point, you would then build a chamber similar to the more simple refrigerated space above - except with more stringent requirements. In this case, frost is not your friend.

You and/or your potential landlord will need to hire a refrigeration specialist to help everyone get what they need.

If you are new to cold storage, likely no one would hold it against you if you decided that maybe you should have someone else do the cold storage for you. There are 3PL (3rd Party Logistics) providers in the industry who do this for many reasons including those outlined above. This can be a good way to start out if you still learning or even expanding into a new area. As you grow, you will learn more about what you need, and trade-offs you encounter with 3PL vs. those that you expect with having your own space will begin to favor a roll-your-own approach - at which point you should likely begin to look at it more seriously again.

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Survey Item 1 of 2 Help Me Find Properties Like This
Property Type Lease
Transaction Type Industrial & Flex
Location Keywords
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US-35 E
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Greene County - Lewis A Jackson Regional Airport
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N Valley Rd
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Upper Bellbrook Rd
Property Descriptions
Clear Height (ft)
Minimum: 18
Maximum: 36
Total Square Feet
Actual: 550329
Further Description * 550,329 SF Building Size
* 40.59 AC Lot Size
* 1959 Built
* Metal Construction
* 150' Truck Court
* Wet Sprinkler System
* Industrial - Distribution Zoning
* 36' Clear Height
* 45’ x 50’ Column Spacing
* 6" Warehouse Floor
* 7 Drive-In Bays
* 39 Exterior Dock Doors
* 39 Levelers
* 300 Standard Parking Spaces
* 35,160 SF Office Space
* 8’ - 36’ Ceiling Height
* Minimum divisible: 40,000 SF
* Amps: 7,500 Volts: 277-480 Phase: 3 Power Supply

This cold storage facility has a total area building of 550,329 SF with a minimum divisible of 40,000 SF that was built in 1959 utilizing metal construction on a 40.59 AC lot. It has a clear height of 18 to 36 feet, 45' x 50' column spacing, a 6" warehouse floor, 480/277 3 Phase electric supply, a wet sprinkler system, 7 drive-in bays, 39 external dock doors, 39 levelers, 150' truck court and 300 standard parking places.

Survey Item 2 of 2 Help Me Find Properties Like This
Property Type Lease
Transaction Type Industrial & Flex
Location Keywords
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Dayton International Airport
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Lyons Rd
Property Descriptions
Clear Height (ft)
Actual: 14
Total Square Feet
Actual: 24000
Further Description * 24,000 SF Building Size
* 4.58 AC Lot Size
* Built 1986
* Reinforced Concrete Constructed
* 14’ Clear Height
* 5 Garage Doors
* Divisible

The property has 2 cold storage buildings on a 4.58-acre lot that was built in 1986 using reinforced concrete construction with a 14’ clear height and 5 drive-in bays. Consist of 30,000 square feet building with five 14 feet of garage doors and a 24,000 SF building. Can be divided into 6,000 - 12,000 SF, 3,600 SF, 6000 SF, and 12,000 SF.

When a client asks us to help them search for a property to meet their needs for a Cold Storage Warehouse for Lease Or Rent in Dayton, we go to the best listing services and to our fellow Commercial Real Estate brokers to pull together all the information available for properties meeting the stated client requirements. We validate the information to be provided - likely by talking directly with the selling or leasing brokers - and then help our clients go through this information to help them select the best fit properties, from which the client would select properties they wish to tour. We are posting an abbreviated version of a search we've either performed for another client, or one we've performed particularly for this article. We call the information provided in this article a "Survey," and we'd love to turn this survey into a full set of search results based upon your requirements! If you don't see a survey in the next section, it just means we haven't gotten around to it yet. If you need this type of property, please do let us know and we'll contact you to get started. The search we perform for you will include most or all categories you see here, plus information about pricing, other expenses, availability, and anything we can find regarding other requirements you provide for your use case. We would provide all of this, along with any available flyers, photos, and detailed information regarding each property.

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Our job is to find a selection of Cold Storage Warehouses for Lease Or Rent in the Dayton Metro using all public and private information services along with our shoe leather and connections. This identification process is without financial obligation to you. Brokers make their money at closing, and these commissions are generally included in the lease and purchase price. To make contact with us, please use our chat widget at the bottom right of your screen, call the number at the top right of your screen, or go to our form page to send us your contact information and a summary of your requirement. For more information about our Dayton Area Affiliate, and more about what we do for you, please visit our Dayton Metro Area.

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