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Allie is a full-time freelance writer with a degree in journalism from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Her work has won several national awards, including the Clarion Award (twice) from the Association for Women in Communications and the James Beard Journalism Award.
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FireHouse Self Storage building new themed facility in Colorado

Allie Johnson/May 16, 2016May 16, 2016 /Leave a comment

Five years ago Barbi and Christopher Burton reinvented a mom-and-pop self-storage facility, using a firehouse theme to turn it into one hot property. Now, the couple is starting a franchising venture and building a second facility in Longmont, CO that will be twice the size of their first one and look like a 1900s firehouse,…

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