Bow City Storage - Self Storage in Downtown Calgary

Storage Units in Downtown Calgary: Serving the Beltline and Inner City

Bow City Storage is a locally owned, BBB-accredited self-storage facility in Calgary's inner city, with climate-controlled units from 25 to 450 sq ft, gated outdoor vehicle parking, and 24/7 access from your phone.

We are locally owned and operated, which means true calendar month billing with no 28-day cycle, no long-term contracts, and same-day move-in through one of our four indoor heated loading bays. Use the unit finder above to see live availability and current online rates, or call us at 403-269-2489, and we will help you size it.

Storage That Fits Calgary's Inner City

Downtown and the Beltline are where Calgary is shortest on space. Condo and apartment buildings here rarely come with a basement or a garage, and the older houses through the inner west were built long before anyone planned for a second set of skis and a patio set.

A storage locker minutes from your front door beats driving to the city limits every time you need to access your stuff.

Why Choose Storage Units in Downtown Calgary

Our building was designed around how people in the inner city actually live. Every unit is climate-controlled and held between roughly 13°C and 25°C year-round, and so are the loading bays. Calgary chinooks can swing the temperature more than 20°C in a single day, and it is that repeated freeze and thaw that damages wood furniture, electronics, leather, artwork and photographs in an unheated garage.

A few reasons inner-city customers pick us:

• Free 24/7 verified access through the Noke app, with no keypad codes to share or lose
• Climate-controlled units held at roughly 13°C to 25°C all year
• True calendar month billing, with no 28-day cycle and no long-term contracts
• Four indoor heated loading bays, so you unload out of the snow and rain
• Oversize high-speed elevators, wide hallways with over-height ceilings, and free use of dollies, carts and pallet jacks
• Motion and heat monitoring inside your unit, reporting activity straight to your phone
• Gated outdoor vehicle stalls for a second car, work van, boat or small trailer
• Packing supplies at the retail office and a team here seven days a week

Storage for the Beltline, Sunalta, Bankview and Marda Loop

Our downtown facility serves the whole inner city. If you live in one of these communities, you are close by:

• The Beltline and West End towers, minutes away on foot or by car
• Sunalta and Shaganappi, a five-minute drive west along 10 Ave
• Bankview, Scarboro, Killarney and Richmond
• Marda Loop and Altadore, a straight run south on 14 St SW
• Hillhurst, Kensington and Sunnyside, just across the Bow

Whether you are downsizing into a condo, staging a house for sale, or holding a renovation's worth of furniture, the unit is the same: clean, dry and secure. 

Choosing the Right Storage Unit Size

We have everything from a closet-sized locker at 25 sq ft to a 450 sq ft ground-floor commercial bay. The unit finder at the top of this page shows live availability and the current online rate for every size at this location, and booking online beats the in-store rate.

Most inner-city customers clearing a one-bedroom condo choose a 5x10 or a 10x10. If you are caught between two sizes, take the larger one. Paying slightly more each month is easier than finding out on moving day that the door will not close.

Our storage unit size guide matches sizes to real loads room by room. If you want a clearer sense of what a 10x10 actually holds, our breakdown of the 10x10 unit walks through it, and we have also written about what storage costs in Calgary.

Our largest units, the 10x30 and the 450 sq ft 15x30, and all vehicle parking is booked by phone rather than online. Call 403-269-2489 and we will check what is available.

Security and 24/7 Smartphone Access

Security here is built into the building. Entry runs through the Noke Bluetooth system, so you open the door, the loading bays and your own unit from your phone at any hour. There are no keys to lose and no shared keypad code circulating among former tenants.

You can send a digital key to a mover, a family member or an employee, control how long it lasts, and see exactly when they came and went. That matters downtown, where a move often has to happen inside a booked loading window.

Inside your unit, motion and heat monitoring reports activity directly to you, and HD video surveillance covers the building and the outdoor lot around the clock. Our smartphone entry FAQ covers how the app works, and we have written more on the security features a storage facility should have.