Design your owner occupied commercial building for the future
When you build a building for your business, make your best effort to design the building so that it lends itself to multi-tenanted use. So for instance if you have a distribution/warehouse use, build a rectangular shaped building with loading across the entire length of the building (either in the front or rear), ample truck courts and parking. For an office building, work with an architect to incorporate design features that a typical multi-tenanted building features: ample attractive lobby area, flexible floorplates with bathrooms and stairwell on a central core, etc.
You may think that the building will be your home until it crumbles to dust, but more likely you’re going to outgrow it, sell your business, or otherwise move. Nothing worse than trying to backfill say a 2 story call center with 100,000 square foot floor plates or a boxy manufacturing facility with minimal loading.
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