U-Haul has repurposed a 7.8-acre lot formerly home to a Chase bank and Tops Friendly Market grocery store in Warren, OH, about 50 miles southeast of Cleveland. The new location at 3394 Elm Road is currently serving customers out of a temporary retail showroom and is scheduled to finish renovations by summer 2025. Services now available include boxes, moving supplies and more. Plans call for adding 1,000 indoor climate-controlled self-storage units in a 69,000-square-foot complex. Source: REBusiness Online
U-Haul also bought 2.7 acres in May to build a three-story, climate-controlled 676-unit building at 6303 Calumet Ave., in Hammond, IN. It’s scheduled to finish in summer 2026. U-Haul’s existing facility at 822 165th St. in Hammond will continue operations remotely. Source: NWIndiana Business
In Youngstown, OH, U-Haul is going to transform the artists’ space at Ward Bakery (above) on the West Side to self-storage. U-Haul will renovate the 1024 Mahoning Ave. building and open in spring 2025 with up to 800 climate-controlled storage units “preserved to maintain as much of the original character as possible,” the company said. The building is located across the street from a U-Haul storage facility and truck rental business at the former Isaly Dairy plant. Dozens of artists who rented space were evicted from the building to make way for the project. The owners, who owned the building for about a year and were previous tenants, were forced to sell due to costly repairs they could not afford to make. Source: The Vindicator
A self-storage facility may be placed across from the North Providence Animal Control, 940 Smithfield Road in North Providence, RI. The board will consider whether or not to make a a zoning ruling that would allow for a self-storage facility. North Providence Auto Salvage has been at that address for a long time. Source: Valley Breeze
DXD Capital, a private-equity investor and self-storage developer based in Albuquerque, NM, opened a new, climate-controlled storage facility in Bristol, RI, at 180 Mount Hope Ave (above). It has 750 units totaling 61,600 NRSF, plus design elements that copy New England townhomes. Jayeff was the general contractor and Centreville Bank was the construction lender. Source: connectcre
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