ABOUT US... 

Design Team West, Inc. is a Team of Architects and Planners which provides traditional architectural and planning services in general and specific commercial areas. In that respect we are no different than the thousands of other architectural firms found in the yellow pages and on the internet. That is where the similarity ends. We specialize in the use approval, design and permitting of self-storage facilities. Our development team has designed and obtained approval for hundreds of facilities from Nantucket to Hawaii and Chicago to Miami. This team was born of the real-estate development requirements of our clients which are among the largest self-storage owner operators in the country, and we are staffed and managed by seasoned real-estate development professionals with decades of experience in planning, use approval, design and construction.  We will plan and design your project and shepherd it through the ever increasing maze of bureaucracy that has come to exemplify most jurisdictional land planning and permitting agencies. We are not passive in our efforts, rather we take ownership of the project and process it with the audacity and vigor of a military operation. We understand that time is money and each day that a project languishes is a day of lost lifetime income to its owner. Our project and client lists span the country. We like our job and our clients and we thoroughly enjoy the challenge of complex projects. Your time line is our motivation and drives our sense of urgency. Your successful project is our satisfaction.

Many architects can design a project and develop the construction documents. Most would argue that “they” can do it better because of some special qualification such as experience in the particular project field or some inherently unique artistic vision. There is some merit to this argument. What if, however, the candidate architects are equally experienced, qualified and staffed then what? The “what” is good old-fashioned service. DTW provides the service to accomplish your goals and objectives. We honestly want to process your project quicker than you do and we have created a team to do exactly that.

 Problems occur in development projects generally where there is an overlap or hand off of professional disciplines. The surveyor surveys. The geotechnical engineer bores. The civil engineer makes water run down hill. The architect designs buildings. Each does an excellent job in their respective discipline. Synergy and project momentum tend to diminish with added number of disciplines. Large development companies understand this and have seasoned managers and staff to coordinate the various disciplines and maintain that sense of urgency and processing momentum, which is so critical to the timely and successful completion of a real estate development project. However, most individual owners do not have the luxury of large staffs and veteran project managers. Accordingly, DTW was created to provide all our clients the benefit of the development management expertise enjoyed by the large development companies. We offer our clients a one-stop shop for project completion. From the initial program development, through the various land use approval and permitting requirements, to bidding and construction administration, we manage the project, coordinate the required professional disciplines and provide one point of contact to make the client’s life easier through the entire development process. We insure that the project momentum is maintained throughout all phases and across all disciplines. We do this so you can do your job.