Construction

• Foundation Installation

Landscaping and Fencing

• Landscaping
  In addition to the entitlement issues, the site presented a unique challenge to fit into the hillside condition and to distribute the massing of the buildings so as to minimize the impact along the street frontage while also considering site lines from the adjacent residential neighborhood sitting above the project, all while maximizing rentable area for the developer. This was accomplished by strategically placing a one story building along the street, a three story in the middle of the site, and then a two story cut into the hillside below the adjacent home's site lines. All the visible portions of the buildings were softened with horizontal and vertical articulations and the use of stucco finishes, cornices, stone wainscoting, faux windows, awnings, and extensive landscaping.
• Driveways
  The offsite improvements came with a number of complications as well. One of the City’s primary concerns for the shared entry with a residential development with to insure that traffic to and from the self storage would both maintain slow speeds and would discourage traffic, specifically trucks, from driving into the residential neighborhood. This was accomplished with a traffic calming island constructed at the storage’s entry driveway. Due to a series of mature heritage Black Walnut and Oak trees along the Stanley frontage, Cubix had to work closely with the City and arborist to design a public sidewalk that meandered around the exiting trees. There were also extensive requirements for frontage improvements, that included undergrounding existing overhead utilities, working around existing fiber optic cables and a high pressure gas line, as well as a need to relocate several easements to make optimal use of the property.
• Retaining Walls
  In order to maximize useable area the site’s plateau needed to be expanded which was acheived by employing extensive retaining walls both above and below the building pad. On the lower side of the site, tiered interlocking block walls totaling over 11’ high with layers of geo grid were installed at the northeast corner of the site. On the upper side of the site steel I beams encased in concrete with concrete planks between added up to another 4’ of retainage. Due to a proximity of just 0.1 miles from the Antioch Earthquake Fault, the foundations for some of the retaining walls had to be as deep as 38’.

Exterior

• Window Installation/Replacement
• Siding
  The increased sensitivity for this gateway location triggered special attention for the streetscape. It was decided that the project should match, in character and materials, the immediately adjacent residential development. This resulting in the manager’s building, which sits right opposite the residential neighborhood, inclusion of matching rooflines, lap siding, covered porch, roofing materials, and similar colors. The long frontage of the storage buildings along Stanley was treated to have consistency with the sound wall at the adjacent residential development including faux stone, lap siding, split face block, wood trellises, and several roof gables.
• Residential Roof Repair
• Residential Roof Replacement/Installation