Self-Storage Architects Who've Designed Hundreds of Facilities — Nationwide
From site feasibility and entitlements to permit-ready construction documents, Jordan Architects helps developers build storage facilities that maximize net rentable square footage and clear the approval process faster.
Established 1981 • Facilities designed across the U.S. • Licensed nationwide
We've authored municipal zoning ordinances • AIA / NCARB
As an experienced architectural design firm, we know the importance of providing customized solutions for our clients. From initial concept development to final execution, our architectural design process is collaborative and detail oriented.
Built Around What Makes a Storage Facility Profitable
A storage facility lives or dies on the numbers: how much net rentable square footage you get out of the site, the right unit mix for the local market, and whether you can actually get it entitled and permitted. We've spent four decades designing for exactly those constraints.
Maximize Rentable Square Footage
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Efficient layouts and proven multi-story and single-story configurations that push your rentable-to-gross ratio as high as the site allows.
Win the Entitlement Battle
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Difficult sites, zoning obstacles, easements, soils and geology issues, sensitive political situations — these are the projects we're known for. We've authored zoning ordinances and guided countless facilities through local approval.
Feasibility Before You Commit
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Considering a parcel or a retail-to-storage conversion? We run feasibility and massing studies up front so you know what the site can yield before you close.
Services
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Feasibility Studies — Know a site's yield and constraints before you buy.
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Land Planning — Site layout that balances unit count, circulation, and code.
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Government Entitlements — Zoning, variances, and approvals from a team that's authored ordinances.
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Architecture & Construction Documents — Permit-ready, build-ready drawings.
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Engineering Coordination — Structural, civil, and MEP integrated from day one.
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3D Renderings — Photoreal visuals for investors, lenders, and city design review.
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Construction Support — We stay in it through to certificate of occupancy.
Four Decades. Hundreds of Facilities. One Specialty That Stuck.
Since 1981, Jordan Architects has designed retail centers, hotels, resorts, and — above all — self-storage facilities across the United States, earning a reputation as a go-to firm in the storage industry. Led by founder Bruce Jordan, AIA, NCARB, our teams take projects others find intimidating and get them entitled, designed, and built.
Beyond self-storage, we bring the same entitlement-savvy, full-service approach to brewery & winery facilities, hospitality and resorts, and custom residential design. Same team, same track record getting hard projects approved.
Construction Manager
MIKE MACAREWICH
Project Lead
DOY CRUZ
Project Manager
ERIC SORENSON
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