What is a flex unit?
Shop space for rent with an office on the side.
A Flex Space unit is an open commercial working bay with roll-up door access, high ceilings, and room for tools, equipment, and the real work of a trade business — plus a finished private office and in-unit restroom at the same address. The bay handles the job. The office handles the business end of it.
Most trades businesses operate out of a storage unit, a garage, or a rented bay with no admin setup. At Flex Space, the entire unit is climate controlled and ready for you to get to work on day one.
Roll-Up Door Access
Drive-in access for vehicles, equipment, and materials. Load and unload without leaving your unit.
High Ceilings & Open Floor
20'+ clearance — room for lifts, racking, oversized equipment, or whatever your operation requires.
Warehouse Sink Included
Already in the unit. Built for trades work — no plumbing project required before you can get to work.
Private Restroom
In-unit, not shared with neighboring tenants. That matters when your clients are on-site.
Legal Business Address
Register your business, pull permits, and operate legally from day one.
Ample Parking & Signage
Dedicated parking for tenants and clients. Signage available for longer-term leases.
Real-World Examples
How trade businesses actually use our shop space.
The same unit serves very different trades. Here's how three types of contractor and service businesses configure the space — and how having an office attached changes the game.
Crew dispatch base with an admin side
Your crew stages from here every morning — tools, vehicles, and materials organized in the bay, ready to roll. The office handles job scheduling, subcontractor calls, client intake, and the end-of-day paperwork. One address for the whole operation instead of a trailer, a storage unit, and a home office all doing different parts of the job.
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Bay for equipment, materials, vehicle parking
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Office for scheduling, estimates, billing
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Morning crew staging from a real address
Working bay for service and specialty work
You do the work in the bay — detailing, wraps, window tint, fabrication, repairs. Clients drive in through the roll-up. The office side handles intake, invoicing, and the occasional client consultation where the bay isn't the right setting. The signage on the unit entrance makes it a real destination, not just a warehouse address.
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Bay as primary work area — client vehicles in
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Office for intake, estimates, consultation
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Signage on unit entrance
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Professional setup for client-facing work
Moving the business out of the driveway
You've been running the business from home — tools in the garage, equipment in the driveway, scheduling calls from the kitchen table. It works until a client asks for your address, or a job gets big enough that the informal setup starts to feel like the wrong size. A Flex Space unit is the step that makes the outside match what the business already is.
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Commercial address — separate from home
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Bay for tools, equipment, materials
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Office for estimates, contracts, client calls
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No more "my shop is wherever my truck is"
Four locations across the Tri-Cities.
Find the one closest to you and ask about current availability.
Common Questions
Want to learn more about renting shop space?
Many trade businesses haven't navigated commercial shop space before. These are the questions our leasing team hears most on a first call from a contractor or service operator.