20ft, 40ft, high cube, modified, and refrigerated containers delivered to Greenville and Greenville and the South Carolina Upstate, including Greer, Simpsonville, Mauldin, Taylors, Travelers Rest. Price always includes delivery.
Greenville is the seat of Greenville County and the commercial center of the Upstate, sitting on the Reedy River at the foot of the Blue Ridge escarpment along the Interstate 85 corridor between Atlanta and Charlotte Deliveries reach Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Pickens, Laurens, Oconee, Cherokee, Union, Abbeville, Greenwood counties, and the practical questions change from one part of the area to the next. the West End, North Main, Augusta Road, Overbrook, Alta Vista, the Earle Street Historic District, Hampton-Pinckney, Pettigru Historic District, Nicholtown, Sans Souci, Southernside, Judson, Poe Mill, Haynie-Sirrine, Pleasant Valley, Viola Street, Gower Estates, Parkins Mill, Cleveland Forest, Stone Lake each bring their own access, placement, and ground-preparation considerations.
Greenville adopted a new Chapter 19, Development Code and Zoning Map, effective July 15, 2023, replacing the former Chapter 19, Land Management. The Development Code addresses shipping containers by name, in two places: an accessory outdoor storage standard that limits container storage to a short list of business and industrial districts, and a temporary use standard that prohibits using a motor vehicle, trailer or shipping container for sales, service, storage or business in all zoning districts except through named exceptions. Portable storage units are treated as a separate category with their own size, count and duration standards. Outside the city limits, unincorporated Greenville County is governed by the county's zoning ordinance, and Greer, Simpsonville, Mauldin, Fountain Inn and Travelers Rest each administer their own.
We have delivered containers throughout Greenville and the South Carolina Upstate and we know the local ground: Four corner castings carrying the entire load onto four genuinely different soils. South Carolina Department of Natural Resources describes four physiographic regions, and a container meets each of them differently than a house does, because a house spreads its weight along a continuous footing and a container puts all of it through four points. The Piedmont, roughly a third of the state and most of the Upstate market, is deep red Cecil and Appling clay that holds water and softens when saturated, with high shrink-swell Iredell soils mixed through the same ground. The Sandhills belt is sandy over eolian sand, where drainage is rarely the issue and bearing sometimes is, because loose sand under a point load wants to spread. The coastal plain, half the state, runs from well drained sandy soils to poorly drained ones with a high water table, and at the marsh edge it turns to soft tidal deposits. Slope compounds all of it, and a great deal of the Greenville and Spartanburg market is on slope., along with the access and clearance realities of the streets here. Tell us your address and your situation, and you get an honest assessment and an accurate delivery quote.
The Upstate supplier network that feeds BMW in Greer and the wider automotive corridor runs lean on floor space. Containers hold tooling, packaging, racking, spare parts and staged material at the plant fence line rather than in rented warehouse across the county. On industrial-zoned ground in the county and in the industrial districts inside the city, this is the most straightforward container use in the region.
Greenville has been building steadily for two decades, and crews working across the county keep tools, copper, fixtures and materials locked on the job rather than loading in and out daily. One container replaces the tool trailer. Inside the city limits, construction authorized by a building permit is one of the specific exceptions written into the development code, which makes a jobsite container the clearest case in town.
The turbine, industrial services and engineering businesses around Greenville handle large, valuable, weather-sensitive components. A container gives a crew secure ground-level storage on the yard or at the project site for rigging, spares, fixtures and calibration gear, and it moves with the project rather than staying behind.
The Interstate 85 corridor and Inland Port Greer have made the Upstate a distribution hub, and warehouse space here gets committed years at a time. A container or a row of them gives a growing operation seasonal overflow at the dock without signing for square footage it will not need in March. On the right industrial ground, containers are ordinary and routine.
North of the city, toward Travelers Rest, Marietta, Slater and the Dark Corner, and out across Pickens, Oconee and Laurens counties, this is working land. Containers hold feed, seed, orchard equipment, chainsaws, tractor implements and hunting gear dry and rodent-resistant, out at the field rather than back at the house. Unincorporated county land is the easiest ground in the Upstate for a container.
Businesses along Main Street, around Falls Park and near Fluor Field run short on back-of-house space. Containers hold seasonal inventory, patio furniture, event staging and paper goods. Be aware that Greenville's development code is specific about containers in commercial districts, and outdoor container storage is limited to a short list of business and industrial districts, so a downtown restaurant should start with a call to Planning and Development.
A few things shape how a delivery goes in this area:
For permit questions on a specific address, contact City of Greenville Planning and Development, 15 South Main Street, Greenville SC 29601, phone (864) 467-4476, [email protected], for zoning determinations. Building permits go through the City of Greenville Building and Permit Center at 204 Halton Road, Greenville SC 29607, phone (864) 467-4505 option 1. If the address is in unincorporated Greenville County, call Greenville County Zoning Administration at County Square, 301 University Ridge, Suite S-3200, Greenville SC 29601, phone (864) 467-7425, [email protected], and ask for the county's zoning administration policy notice on shipping containers..
Used wind and water tight and one-trip containers are both available. Every unit is inspected before delivery.
All-in pricing with delivery included. Call or text (330) 510-5817, or use the quote form above.