The city of Arvada, CO, which is just west of Denver, has put a 180-day moratorium on self-storage facilities. The Arvada City Council on April 2 voted unanimously that no self-storage facilities could submit plans while city staff evaluates the potential impacts to property, public health, safety and welfare. “We have not liked to see…

An $11 million construction loan will enable a New Jersey developer to build a self-storage facility in Miami, FL. Storage Partners of Miami II, an affiliate of Morristown, NJ-based Hampshire Real Estate, received the loan from Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania for the project at 3095 SW 39th Ave., between Coconut Grove and Coral Gables. The…

Sometimes this industry just quacks us up. Brookhaven Town officials in Moriches, on New York’s Long Island, have approved a zoning change for a site that is the former home of a duck farm that also was used as an illegal dump. The land is filled with debris as well as nitrogen deposits from decades…

A former Fulton County Schools Administration Center will be converted into Space Shop self-storage, plus retail, restaurants or other commercial spaces. Space Shop and Eden Rock Real Estate Partners are planning the project. The Administration Center, a three-story, 100,829-square-foot site at 786 Cleveland Ave., is in the Hammond Park neighborhood of Atlanta, GA, bordering East…

Prime Group Holdings LLC in Saratoga Springs, NY, hopes to score $460,000-plus in real property, mortgage and sales tax savings as it seeks approval for a $4 million, two-story self-storage facility to be built near the southeast corner of Route 50 and Edie Road in Wilton. But the Saratoga County Industrial Development Agency, aware that…

TD Self Storage, an offshoot of JHM Hotels, has proposed including 107,000 square feet of self-storage as part of the West End Community Hub, a mixed-use project at 101 O’Neal St., Greenville, SC. The development also would include an iShare co-working space; a 2,000-square-foot West End Music Hub that musicians would use for individual or…

Swing and a miss: The Los Altos Batting Range at 9501 Lomas NE in Albuquerque, NM, has struck out after 35 years, a victim of baby boomers developing sore shoulders, arms, backs and knees, as well as increasing competition from indoor ranges. Owner Dick Mann, 68, plans to spend $300,000 to replace it with the…

A new Storage King USA facility is planned for 1245 Northeast 12th Avenue in Homestead, FL. The 110,000-square-foot project is a joint venture between Andover Properties and Angelo, Gordon & Co. The developers plan to fund the project with a $6 million construction loan, according to The Real Deal. The joint venture purchased the 3-acre…

New life has come to a proposed self-storage facility near the Tramonto development in Phoenix, AZ. Developer High Range Partners withdrew its application after local residents objected to the facility at a meeting of the Phoenix North Gateway Village Planning Committee. But Brexton LLC came along, partnered with High Range Partners and revived the pitch…