Before signing a lease, walk the warehouse and check six things: loading access, hours, size and layout, security, the building's amenities, and the terms themselves. At Goodspace Eastgardens — a new precinct of twenty hi-tech warehouses — you can tick most of those boxes on a single tour.
A commercial warehouse is a long relationship, and the Eastgardens area now gives Sydney businesses a brand-new option to measure others against. Here's the inspection checklist we'd bring to any warehouse, anywhere in Sydney — with notes on what to look for.
1. Loading and access
Can a delivery actually get in? Check for roller-door loading, the turning room outside the door, and on-site parking for your team and couriers. Then ask about hours: if your stock moves early or late, 24/7 access isn't a luxury — the warehouses at Goodspace Eastgardens include both roller-door loading and round-the-clock access as standard.
2. Size, layout and room to grow
Measure against your racking plan, not the raw floor area. A commercial warehouse checklist for Sydney should also ask what happens when you outgrow the space: precincts with a range of sizes make upgrading simple. Eastgardens offers twenty warehouses from 42.6m² to 207.3m² across three levels, so the next size up is in the same building.
3. The building around the warehouse
Your team spends whole days here, so inspect the parts that aren't racking. At Goodspace Eastgardens the building includes an on-site café, a 24/7 gym run independently by Anytime Fitness, and end-of-trip facilities — showers, lockers and bike parking. Few industrial estates offer any of the three.
4. Location and freight times
Map the drive to your ports, carriers and customers before you commit. Goodspace Eastgardens, at 96a Denison St, sits six minutes' drive from Sydney Airport, seven from Port Botany and fourteen from the CBD — numbers worth comparing against any warehouse further inland.
5. Security and spec
Ask how the building is secured after hours and how access is managed. New builds tend to win here: the Eastgardens warehouses are hi-tech spec, purpose-built rather than retrofitted. For a closer look at the precinct, read our earlier walkthrough of what's inside the new warehouses at Eastgardens.
6. The lease terms themselves
Finally, the paperwork: ask what's included in the rate, what outgoings apply, how long the commitment runs and what happens if you need to scale. Get every answer in writing before signing anything.
Inspect one in person
Eleven of the twenty warehouses at Goodspace Eastgardens were still available at the time of writing, and sizes move quickly. Call (02) 9145 8089 or enquire online to book a tour at 96a Denison St, Eastgardens.