Additionally, my Dad was in construction and facilities management when I was growing up so I have had a fair amount of exposure to construction.  

I own an Aesthetic Medicine practice in Northwest Houston called MD Advanced Skincare and a few other healthcare related businesses.With my family background in Healthcare, I was able to secure investments in some properties and medical facilities.

Just talk to your prospective tenants, leasing brokers, other facilities nearby.

I know Public Storage and Extra Space have these units in a small handful of their facilities in the area and plan on taking a quick trip out to them to chat up the managers at some point.

Kroc bought the property for $600,000 in the 1960s, and spent years turning the scenic land into a research and development facility and a vacation spot for himself and other McDonald’s executives.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.

A business partner and I studied this concept for awhile and were prepared to open a facility to produce container homes.  

If so I would do a feasibility study to see the need and call other local storage facilities and see how crowded they are.

@Zach Quick Absolutely, it is this immediate area that is becoming over-saturated as many new self storage facilities are still being built as average prices for the existing facilities are already competitively being lowered. 

I feel like driving for dollars and searching on google will not capture all the local facilities - especially the smaller mom and pop facilities that may not have a strong online presence.I don’t mind pulling the owners information myself as long as I can identify which properties are self storage in my area.Any advice?