The five share a site plan and a set of approvals, and they are different buildings. A new facility is mostly drive-up rows. Boat and RV storage is mostly pavement and roof, sized for a motorhome. An expansion is built beside tenants who are still using the gate. A climate-controlled building is a conditioned envelope around interior corridors. A condo building is sold unit by unit, so its ownership documents matter as much as its walls.
Each page covers how the building goes together, the published cost figures where one applies, and what a contractor needs to price it. The approvals come before any of them, in the same order for all five: the steps are on how to build a self storage facility in Texas.
- Self storage facility construction Read A new facility on raw land: the building mix, the slab and site work, the gate and the office.
- Boat and RV storage buildings Read Canopy rows or enclosed bays sized for motorhomes and boats on trailers.
- Expansions of an existing facility Read New buildings on an operating facility, phased around the tenants already there.
- Climate-controlled storage buildings Read Conditioned interior units, single-story or multistory, with a corridor plan.
- Storage condos and garage condos Read Units built to sell rather than rent, with the ownership documents that go with them.
Last reviewed 2026-09-23.