A new type of self-storage facility is rising in a small Connecticut town—a concept that the developer hopes to replicate again and again.
Called Riverworks on 7 and designed by Darien, CT-based Fletcher Development, the facility at 241 Ethan Allen High in Redding offers climate-controlled storage units, but also storage bays for at least 50 vehicles and apace for auto tinkerers. An indoor driving lane enables clients to more easily handle loading and unloading items in bad weather. Riverworks on 7 also will have wine storage and a lounge.
Ryan Fletcher, principal of the venture, told CT Insider: “We wanted a place where people will think, ‘It’s cool to come to the self-storage facility,'”
Fletcher hopes to obtain a certificate of occupancy by year-end. About 25% of the building’s footprint will be developed as industrial flex research and design space for multiple tenants. Fletcher told the source that a portion of that space has been reserved by an unnamed defense contractor that makes components for fighter jets.
Source: CT Insider
Planned
Yates Properties in Madison, NJ, has applied for a new 12,000-square-foot building and travel aisles at Self-Storage of Madison. The 10.684 property is zoned -1, limitedindustrial.com, and would expand an existing storage facility on U.S. 29 north of the Shelby Road intersection. Source: Madison Eagle
In New Jersey, developer MLS Operating LLC of Edgewater Park wants to build a self-storage facility on Federal Street. MLS will speak before the Township Zoning Board of Adjustment on Oct. 9. MLS seeks a variance allowing a commercial use in a residential zone. An existing 71,991-square-foot building would be converted into five single-storage units totaling 15,350 square feet to be built at the site, which abuts Route 295 northbound. Source: 70 and 73
JAM Storage LLC has applied to the Town of Cortlandt in upstate New York for approval to build a two-story self-storage building. It’s proposed for a 32-acre parcel of land at 2059 Albany Post Road. There’s a single-daily home on the site at 2059 Albany Post Road that would be torn down.
Trammell Crow Residential bought 3 acres of vacant land at the intersection of the Dulles Airport Access Road and Monroe Street in Herndon, VA, with plans to build an apartment building with 320 units and adding nearly 118,000 square feet of storage space. Source: List Self Storage
A three-story, 6,000-square-foot retail building – an Extra Space Storage facility – will be built behind two other buildings next to Deer Park, IL. Also coming is a development that will include Rand Road Shoppes, occupying about 6 acres of underdeveloped land on the 20300 block of North Rand Road. The project also will have a Scooter’s drive-through store. The proposed size of the facility has shrunk from 143,400 square feet since plans were presented to village officials. Source: List Self Storage
Under construction
Dallas-based MYCON General Contractors has broken ground on an approximately 1,600-unit self-storage facility for U-Haul in Haltom City, TX. It will have a 28,866-square-foot, pre-engineered metal building designed for U-Box Storage; an 81,978-square-foot, self-storage building and five drive-up storage buildings totaling 15,500 square feet. It’s MYCON’s eighth collaboration with U-Haul and follows the groundbreaking of an 80-unit in Denton. Completion is scheduled for March 2025. Source: RE Business Online
Legislative
The Niles, OH city council says no new permits for storage units, storage facilities, storage pods and self-storage establishments in the city. It has two such buildings operating in the community and another one that has submitted drawings, and applied for permits from the zoning department. Mayor Steve Mientkiewicz now seeks a one-year moratorium of such buildings while the city reviews whether the city will allow any more storage facilities. Source: TribToday
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