David Owen, “To Have and to Hold:”
[Fulfillment centers] are easy to spot from the air, because they’re immense, low, rectangular, flat-roofed, windowless, and, typically, clustered in industrial parks near airports and other transportation hubs. Self-storage facilities are almost always smaller, and they’re less likely to be encircled by eighteen-wheelers, but they’re similar in design and construction. Recently, it occurred to me that the ideal place to open a self-storage facility might be in the middle of one of those industrial parks, surrounded by fulfillment centers. That way, when you bought something from Amazon, it could be delivered directly to your storage unit, bypassing your cluttered home and sparing you the embarrassment of not remembering what you’d ordered the day before.