JUST ONE MORE SITE
Real-world lessons in site planning, design, development, & architecture.
Behind every successful franchise, developer, mom & pop, or investor looking to build is a well-planned site and well-designed building. In this short-form video series, Hover Architecture shares real-world strategies, design insights, and site-planning lessons from the trenches of commercial development.
A Hover Video Series on Smarter Architecture, Sites, and Strategy
Are you preparing to build? The difference between a profitable launch and a drawn-out headache often comes down to architecture, engineering, and site planning. Just One More Site is Hover Architecture’s original video series where we share bite-sized insights on what makes a site work and what holds it back. Each episode offers strategic, real-world guidance on timelines, permitting, design, and development all designed to help you build better and scale faster.
What to expect from this series:
- New episodes published regularly right here on this page
- Each video covers a key site, design, or architectural insight
- Subscribers get first access, delivered straight to your inbox
- No fluff. Just actionable tips, stories, and strategy.
You’re busy. You’ve got deals to close, dirt to move, and sites to open. The last thing you need is another fluff-filled architecture video packed with vague inspiration and zero practical value.
That’s why we created Just One More Site… a short, sharp video series from Hover Architecture that shows you how to pick better sites before you commit, avoid the design mistakes that kill your deal, speed up timelines and permit approvals, and roll out your brand across multiple states with fewer headaches.
And we do it in just a few minutes per episode!
This isn’t theory. These are real-world lessons from a firm that’s helped launch hundreds of car washes, oil change bays, franchise concepts, and self-storage sites across the country.
JUST ONE MORE SITE VIDEO LIBRARY
Episode 7: How Much Land Do I Need?
Over the last 2 years, Hover has sent out over 500 conceptual site plans. We’ve seen our fair share of ½ acre PAD sites, even more 1 acre greenfield sites, and the occasional 50 acre parcel looking for help with master planning. We’ve looked at rectangular lots, but...
Episode 6: 3 Design Features To Make Your Carwash Stand Out
If you drive past ten carwashes today, nine of them will look almost exactly the same. Same tunnel. Same walls. Same layout. And that’s a problem, because when everything looks the same, the only thing customers remember is price. So today I want to show you three...
Episode 5: What is a Preapp Meeting?
In the first few episodes of this series, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on site selection and conceptual site planning. So what happens next? While you might be chomping at the bit to get started with planning and entitlements, there is an important step that we...
Episode 4: Greenfields, Brownfields, Infills – Oh My!
In commercial development, Greenfield doesn’t always mean easy. Brownfield doesn’t always mean dangerous. And infill doesn’t always mean fast. These assumptions drive a lot of site decisions. And they’re often wrong. Let’s set the record straight in today’s episode of...
Episode 3: How to Get Ahead of Offsite Improvements
You think you’ve found the perfect site… until the city drops a five-page list of offsite improvements you never budgeted for. Suddenly you’re staring at tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of dollars in “improvements” you didn’t plan on. Ouch! I’ve watched this play...
Episode 2: Third Time’s a Charm
Some projects test your patience. Others test your process. And every once in a while, you get a project that tests both. Today, I want to share a story. It’s about a developer who’s been put through the ringer and has not given up. It’s also one of the stories that...
Episode 1: Welcome to Just One More Site
If there’s one thing that separates profitable developers from the ones who bleed time and money, it’s this: they make better site decisions, earlier. That’s it. Better decisions. Earlier in the process. Welcome to Just One More Site — a short form video series from...
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So why the name?
Because if you’ve been in development long enough, you know the feeling. The site that looked perfect… until it wasn’t. The one that made it all the way to permit… before falling apart over access, drainage, zoning, politics, you name it.
“Just One More Site” comes from those moments. It’s about what happens next. It’s about refusing to give up when a deal goes sideways, and taking what we’ve learned from all the failed sites, the hard lessons, and the close calls then starting fresh with more clarity and more grit.
It’s also a mindset. Like that last rep in the gym, the one that’s hard, but worth it. Just One More Site is about doing the work, learning from the missteps, and sharing the insights that help all of us build better next time.
Because the goal, honestly? Is to get to a place where we don’t have to say “just one more site.”