Built by people
who'd want to
work here.not a generic warehouse rebrand.
The Capital Region has plenty of self-storage. It has older industrial buildings split into rentable boxes. It has "storage centers" with the word literally in the name. What it didn't have, until now, was a brand-new flex complex purpose-built for the way contractors, auto shops, makers, and customer-facing operators actually run their businesses.
Workshops @ Glenville is what we wanted to lease — but couldn't find. So we built it.
Why this place,
why this way?
The gap that existed.
Drive twenty miles in any direction from Schenectady and you'll find rental options for small businesses. Self-storage rows. Mini-warehouses. A scattering of older industrial buildings carved up into 1,200-square-foot units with single-phase power and a shared bathroom down the hall.
What you wouldn't find — not at the size, the price, or the location — was a brand-new complex with real shop power, oversized drive-in doors on every unit, combinable footprints up to 4,500 square feet, and a customer-facing storefront entrance so the business looks like a business.
The Capital Region has thousands of small operators who could grow into a space like that if it existed. It didn't. So we built it.
What that meant on paper.
Twenty-one units across roughly 31,800 square feet on Maple Avenue in Glenville — a location that's deliberately central rather than convenient-to-one-place. About twenty minutes from downtown Albany. Ten from Schenectady. Half an hour from Saratoga. Easy reach from Niskayuna, Scotia, Rotterdam, Clifton Park.
Every unit got 100 amp three-phase power, because we'd watched too many contractors and auto shops trip a single-phase circuit the first time they ran a compressor next to a welder. Every unit got an oversized 12-by-12 drive-in door, because work trucks and box trucks don't fit through a 10-by-10. Every unit got a private ADA-compliant 1/2 bathroom, because shared facilities are a small-business deal-breaker.
And every unit got both a storefront entrance and a drive-in. Not one or the other. Both.
Workshops @ Glenville wasn't built to be the cheapest flex space in the Capital Region. It was built to be the right one — the property a contractor, auto shop, or maker walks into and thinks, finally, somebody got it.
Three decisions that
shaped every unit.
These weren't compromises. They were the whole point. If we couldn't deliver all three, we weren't going to build this property at all.
Combinable, not
locked-in.
Most flex complexes pour walls on day one and call it a day. Your business outgrows the unit, you move. We built ours so adjacent units combine into 3,000, 4,500, or 6,000 square feet. Grow without leaving. That's the difference between a rental and a long-term operating address.
Built for shop
work, not storage.
100 amp three-phase to every unit. 12-by-10 overhead drive-in doors. 12-foot clear ceilings. These aren't upgrades or add-ons — they're standard. Anyone running tools, lifts, kilns, or compressors knows the difference these specs make, and how rare they are at this size and price point.
A real business
address.
Every unit gets a storefront entrance facing the parking lot — not a roll-up door customers have to guess at. A private ADA bathroom. On-demand hot water. The capability of adding an AC unit. The kind of details that mean your business looks and operates like a business, not a back-alley operation in a glorified storage unit.
Owner-operated.
Not a portfolio asset.
Workshops @ Glenville is a single property, owned and operated by the people who built it. Not a line item in a REIT spreadsheet. Not part of a national flex-space chain. That distinction shapes everything about how the property is run — from how tour requests get reviewed, to how tenant questions get answered, to how the place is going to look five years from now.
Workshops @ Glenville
Ownership is local, accessible, and directly involved in the property's day-to-day. Tour requests are reviewed by ownership before they go on the calendar. Tenant questions don't get bounced to an out-of-state property management firm. The people who decided to build a twelve-foot-clear ceiling and three-phase power into every unit are the same people who'll answer the phone if your sprinkler line freezes in January.
That isn't a marketing claim — it's a structural choice about how the property is set up.
NAI Platform
NAI Platform is the listing brokerage for Workshops @ Glenville. Two agents are dedicated to the property — both with deep familiarity with the Capital Region commercial market. They handle prospect tours, leasing terms, and the brokerage side of every transaction.
Cory Tyksinski · Principal Broker
Matthew Zelezniak · Real Estate Salesperson
A real Capital
Region address.
Glenville works.
Glenville sits in southern Schenectady County, about ten minutes north of downtown Schenectady on Route 50. It's a town with a mixed economy — a longstanding industrial base, retail along Route 50, and steady residential growth feeding into Niskayuna and Scotia. It's a place where small businesses operate without being lost.
46 Maple Avenue specifically is positioned for visibility and access — frontage on a main road, easy reach to I-890 and the Northway, and a drive radius that covers the four major Capital Region submarkets without making any of them feel like a haul.
Drive times that matter.
About 20 minutes to downtown Albany. About 10 minutes to downtown Schenectady. Half an hour to Saratoga Springs. Easy reach to Niskayuna, Scotia, Rotterdam, Clifton Park, and Halfmoon.
Translation: most of your customers, your suppliers, your job sites, and your delivery routes start within 20 minutes of the front door. That's a different proposition than flex space 40 minutes out, even if the per-square-foot price looks similar on paper.
A property meant
to stick around.
The decisions that shaped how this complex was built were long-term decisions. The investments in three-phase power, oversized doors, full bathrooms, and brand-new construction don't pay off in the first six months. They pay off across the years tenants stay, grow, and tell other operators about us.
Growing tenants,
not turnover.
The combinable unit design is the clearest signal of how ownership thinks about the property. A flex complex built for short-term churn wouldn't bother making units combinable — fixed walls are cheaper. We built combinability in because we'd rather a tenant grow from 1,500 SF to 3,000 SF to 4,500 SF over five years than chase a new tenant every time someone outgrows their unit.
That's the practical version of "long-term." It's not a brochure word. It's a design decision baked into every framing wall.
The property's
second act.
Beyond the existing 21 units, the site has room. The current build represents the first phase of what ownership has in mind for the property — additional unit configurations, outdoor storage build-out, and adjacent improvements that respond to what the first round of tenants actually need.
We're not in a hurry. Phase one needs to stabilize, the tenant mix needs to settle, and the next set of decisions deserves to be made with real data, not speculation. But for tenants signing in now: this is a property meant to grow with you, not just rent to you.