20ft, 40ft, high cube, modified, and refrigerated containers delivered to the Kansas City metro area, including Independence, Lee's Summit, Blue Springs, Liberty and Gladstone.
Kansas City is the center of a two state metro that spreads across four counties inside the city limits alone and reaches from the Northland down through Cass County and west across the state line into Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas. Deliveries reach Jackson, Clay, Platte, Cass, Ray, Clinton, Lafayette, Johnson (MO), Bates and Caldwell counties. Delivery areas include the River Market, Columbus Park, the Crossroads Arts District, Quality Hill, the Downtown Loop, Union Hill, Westport, Midtown, Southmoreland, the Country Club Plaza, Brookside, Waldo, Hyde Park, Volker, Valentine, Roanoke, Rockhill, the West Bottoms, the East Bottoms, the Historic Northeast, Pendleton Heights, 18th and Vine, Ivanhoe, Blue Hills, Manheim Park, Marlborough, Hickman Mills, Ruskin Heights, Red Bridge, Martin City, Briarcliff, Line Creek, Gashland and Nashua.
Kansas City is a home rule charter city. Land use is governed by the Zoning and Development Code, Chapter 88, and administered by the City Planning and Development Department at City Hall. Kansas City names portable storage containers directly in its adopted code, in section 88-370-07, which sits in the temporary uses article rather than in the accessory structure article. That placement is the tell: the code treats a container on a residential lot as a temporary use with a clock on it, not as a permanent accessory building. Because the city limits span four counties and butt against the Kansas state line, the first question a buyer can answer is which jurisdiction actually has the address.
Include your address and a description of the access when you request a quote.
A general contractor or trade crew working across Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass counties can use a container as the one lockable box on site. Copper, tools, appliances, cabinetry and specialty material stay behind one door with one key instead of being loaded onto a trailer and towed home at the end of every day.
A pre-war house in Hyde Park, Volker, Brookside, Waldo or the Historic Northeast can have a small lot and either a detached garage or no garage at all. When one of those houses gets opened up, a container in the driveway holds furniture, millwork and finish material on site for the length of the job instead of paying for a storage unit plus two moves to reach it.
Acreage in the Northland above the river and in the country east of Lee's Summit and Blue Springs can use a container to keep feed, fencing, seed, chemical, tack and small implements dry and out of the weather, without the footings a pole barn needs.
Around Claycomo and the metro's supplier shops, racks, dunnage, fixtures and returnable packaging can outgrow the floor space. A container on the yard absorbs the overflow and can be moved when the line changes over, which a permanent addition cannot.
A landscape or snow crew has seasonal gear at both ends of the calendar, mowers and irrigation parts in July and plows, blades and bagged salt in January. A container at the yard keeps the off-season half of the fleet's gear out of the shop bay that a truck needs.
Patio furniture, seasonal displays, dry goods and event equipment for a retailer or restaurant in the Crossroads, on the Plaza or along the Northland retail corridors do not need to sit inside the building. A container in the back lot can carry the overflow.
A few things shape how a delivery goes in this area:
For permit questions on a specific address, contact the City of Kansas City, Missouri, City Planning and Development Department, 414 East 12th Street, City Hall, 15th floor, Kansas City, MO 64106, phone (816) 513-1500, email planning@kcmo.org. General city questions go through the 311 Action Center at 311 or (816) 513-1313. For an address in unincorporated Jackson County, call Jackson County Public Works at (816) 881-4500.
Containers are available in several grades, from used wind and water tight to one-trip.
Call or text (330) 510-5817, or use the quote form above.