Scott Schoettlin’s job title may have changed, but his mission remains the same: grow SkyView Advisors’ self-storage brokerage business. Schoettlin, the former senior vice president of the Tampa-based commercial real estate brokerage firm, became managing director of SkyView late last month and will now oversee the firm’s 30 employees on a day-to-day basis. The goal…
StoreEase Inc. has taken two major steps towards its goal of deploying its “virtual management” technology in 1,000 self-storage facilities within the next five years. The Birmingham, AL-based StoreEase recently received $2.8 million in seed investment led by New York-based Bienville Capital. StoreEase plans to use the funds largely for continued development of proprietary technology…
Doorage Storage is buying Boston’s On Demand Storage as part of its plan to expand its pickup-and-delivery services across the Northeast. Meanwhile, the Chicago-based Doorage, founded five years ago, is launching new services in Las Vegas and Columbus, OH as it attempts to expand its reach nationwide. Sean Sandona, founder and CEO of Doorage, said…
Herby Bowman wants to make a deal – and he’s hoping to make a lot of them in coming years. Bowman, formerly the director of business development for Public Storage, recently joined Store Space Self Storage as the firm’s new senior director of business development. His mandate: grow the company from the 80 properties that…
Madison Capital Group has created a new affiliate to pursue what it hopes will be a lucrative extension of its self-storage business: stand-alone storage facilities exclusively for boats, RVs and other vehicles that owners don’t want to park in their driveways. The Charlotte, NC-based firm, which has developed or purchased more than 70 self-storage facilities…
Pogoda Companies is looking to break out of its Michigan and Ohio base – and it’s hired Beau Agnello to help, operationally and strategically, achieve its expansion goals. The Farmington Hills, MI-based Pogoda recently announced that Agnello will serve as its new senior vice president of operations, overseeing its 58 owned and managed facilities in…
For the second year in a row, Denver-based Spartan Investment Group has been named to Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list, based on its revenue growth of 2,543 percent from 2018 to 2020. In fact, Spartan Investment was ranked 166th on this year’s list, up from No. 306 in 2020, making it once again a…
SROA Capital LLC has scooped up an additional 26 self-storage facilities, bringing the Florida-based investment firm’s portfolio to more than 200 storage properties spread out mostly in secondary and tertiary markets east of the Mississippi River. SROA Capital operates self-storage facilities under the Storage Rentals of America brand name. Acquiring StayLock Storage SROA Capital announced…
After a ten-year pause in running his self-storage consulting firm in order to work in the employ of a number of storage operators, RK Kliebenstein has returned to his roots, resurrecting his Coast-To-Coast Storage Reality Advisors and signing up new clients amid a nationwide boom in the storage sector. Earlier this month, Montville, N.J.-based Diversified…
10 Federal’s third self-storage fund is up and running, raising $7.4 million in 18 days and quickly acquiring three facilities in Georgia and South Carolina as part of its long-term push to become one of the top storage operators in the nation. Brad Minsley, co-founder of Raleigh, NC-based 10 Federal Self Storage, said his company’s…
