Flatirons Asset Management has acquired 33 self-storage facilities from Red Dot Storage for an undisclosed price. Red Dot will continue to manage the facilities on behalf of Flatirons. “After this transaction we currently own 76 properties in 14 states,” said Scott Smith, CEO of Flatirons. Flatirons’ other properties are operated by Red Dot Storage as…

Amid mounting pressure from regulators, investors and lenders, the self-storage industry is starting to consider more its environmental impacts and seek out ways to reduce its contribution to global climate change. One such way is being pioneered by Houston-based GreenSpace Self-Storage, which reuses cargo containers to build self-storage facilities.  The self-storage industry’s biggest environmental impact…

Last month StorageMart announced it was getting into the third-party management business. The new truSTORAGE platform will offer property management services to independent storage operators, allowing them to benefit from use of the StorageMart name, as well as the company’s proprietary revenue management system. To find out more about what StorageMart is up to with…

Storable, the leading technology company for self storage operators, and The William Warren Group (WWG), a privately held entrepreneurial real estate company that operates the StorQuest® Self Storage family of brands, announced today that they have entered into a Facility Management Software Development Agreement in order to co-develop and support customized facility management software and…

A growing Boston-based startup offers a way for operators to outsource the cumbersome task of managing liens with its artificial intelligence-enabled software platform.  The company, AI Lean, recently obtained $1.9 million in venture funding to expand its customer success team and invest in product innovation. Launchpad Funding Group led the latest funding round. “We execute…