Whatever your business venture and wherever the plot of land that you’re planning to build upon, making a store can either be a long, stressful and drawn-out experience, or it can be delightfully breezy and easy, with simple builds getting your store up and running and kitted out for your customers to enjoy.
If you’re looking to build a store quickly, and to take the stress out of its delivery so that you can get straight to business with selling and servicing, then this is the guide for you for 2020 and beyond.
Choose a Site
Perhaps you’ve already selected a site, or maybe you’re still looking. Before you choose a location for your store, you need to know that you can build on the land you purchase, and that you can register your commercial property there. This you can plan with the local authority, with the help of a go-between to speed this process along as quickly as possible.
Often, stores should be situated on main roads headed into and out of large industrial centers – this is where you’re likely to find the very best site for your business’ store.
Begin Building
There are plenty of complications when it comes to the physical construction on your store. Not only will you need to connect all the utilities running underground to your new building, and build the foundations, but you’ll have to make your store durable and attractive – two qualities that can often take many months to achieve. Luckily, there’s another option for those future store owners with ambitions to get things built and ready to trade. Check out these commercial quonset buildings as an example of just how quickly and simply you can set up your perfect new store.
Interior Design
Now is the time to go into the store’s interior design planning, as your physical store is being built. With construction underway, you need to begin to find the items that you’ll be filling your store with – like mannequins and clothes rails in clothing stores, or ovens and other kitchen appliances in roadside diners and the like.
If you find these for cut prices online, it’s worth buying them while your store is still being built: you can always place your awaiting items in storage up until the date at which your brand new store can finally open its doors.
Decorating and Finishing
Once the store’s build is complete, and some of the basic equipment has been bought and installed, you’ll be ready for the final phase of your new store construction and opening: interior decorating, and the adding of finishing touches to boost the ambience and atmosphere you’re looking for from your store. With an extra week or two budgeted into your schedule for these kinds of finishing touches, you’ll be able to start planning your grand opening – an unveiling of your new business for all those locals who’ve been watching your construction to finally poke into your store to see what you’re all about.
These simple, four-step tips will help you open a brand new store in no time, should you have ambitions to do so.