Commercial space for rent in Sydney, NS

A Flexbays unit is a commercial bay you run a business out of — 1,000 to 5,000+ sq ft with a 12 by 14 ft drive-in overhead door, a separate man door, its own 125A or 200A panel, a heat pump and a private washroom. It is not office space and not a retail storefront. If your business needs to get a vehicle, equipment or stock through the door, this is the kind of commercial space you are looking for.

No, and the difference matters. Most commercial space advertised in Sydney is office or retail on Charlotte Street, Prince Street or Kings Road — front-of-house square footage with a display window and a customer entrance. Flexbays is the working kind: drive-in access, height, power and a concrete floor, at 300 Stable Drive minutes from downtown. If you need walk-in foot traffic, lease downtown. If you need to work, store and load, lease here.

Yes, within reason. Plenty of tenants take appointments, receive clients and run a counter out of a bay — detailers, upfitters, repair shops, trades with a showroom corner. You can frame in a reception area or private office as part of your fit-out. What a bay is not suited to is walk-by retail that depends on street traffic.

Downtown commercial and office space in Sydney generally runs from a few hundred dollars a month for a single office room up to roughly $2,400 to $2,900 for 1,700 to 1,800 sq ft of storefront. A Flexbays bay is a flat rate for a new build with your own door, power, heat pump and washroom, and no agent commission. Call 902-302-6555 for the current rate sheet — pricing depends on size and configuration.

Units are leased on a one-year term, renewable at the end of it, and longer terms can be arranged for tenants who want to lock in a rate. There is no five-to-ten-year commitment like a big-box industrial lease, and no agent commission.

As a rough guide: a single bay of about 1,000 sq ft suits a trade or mobile business moving out of a home garage or a rented storage unit. Around 2,000 sq ft fits racking on one side and a work or vehicle bay on the other. 3,000 sq ft and up suits distribution, fulfillment and light manufacturing. Because the building is clear-span, adjacent bays combine into one open floor.

300 Stable Drive, Sydney, Nova Scotia, in the Open Hearth Park area just off Prince Street — about four minutes from downtown Sydney and six from the Highway 125 interchange. Roughly twenty minutes to Glace Bay and to the North Sydney ferry terminal, so it works as a base for commercial tenants across the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

The building at 300 Stable Drive is under construction and pre-leasing now. Call 902-302-6555 and we will walk you through the site, the floor plan and which bays are still unspoken for. Reserving before completion means you choose your position in the building, your panel size and whether bays are combined.