Here’s hoping they get a “green” light. The Village Board approved a master conceptual plan that includes a 127,000-square-foot Extra Space Storage facility at the southwest corner of 88th Avenue and Wilmot Road in Pleasant Prairie, WI. It would be at 9201 Wilmot Road. Prairie Holdings LLC owns the vacant property. However, the proposed strong…
In Colorado, the Carbondale Planning and Zoning Commission listened to proposals for two self-storage facilities at its Jan. 24 meeting. But the commission was not making any decisions about the sites, instead just submitting comments to Garfield County, to which the two sites are land applications. (If a development is within 3 miles of Carbondale…
The Hampshire Cos. has taken on a unique project with historical aspects. The private real estate investment firm has purchased a former armory building that was built in 1912, at 1189 Magnolia Ave. in Elizabeth, NJ, with plans to convert it into a 100,000-square-foot (75,000 net rentable), 800-unit, three-story self-storage facility. Construction begins later in…
Storage Deluxe is finishing up a 99,000-square-foot self-storage facility that’s expected to open in mid-March at 2225 46th St. in Astoria, Queens, in New York City. It has room for 1,900 units. CubeSmart will manage the site. Recently, Storage Deluxe opened a 240,000-square-foot facility with about 400,000 units in The Bronx, also in New York…
Storage of America purchased an industrial building at 5041 to 5107 Kitridge Road in Huber Heights, OH. The price was $535,000, and Globe Products Inc. was the seller. The company plans to open a self-storage facility there sometime this year. Storage of America also is planning a new facility in Akron,OH, and recently opened a…
Shipping containers would be the storage unit of choice if the father-son duo of Todd and Tyler Leinbach succeed in building a self-storage business in southern Forsyth County in North Carolina. “What we have found is that people are moving to Forsyth County faster than they ever have, so a lot of storage facilities are…
The city of Golden, CO, has been perplexed for more than 20 years about what to do with a piece of land called the Golden Overlook. The latest plan proposes to build self-storage and light industrial/commercial space on Area B of the land, which is between a residential neighborhood and the C-470 and Interstate 70…
Perhaps he should have left well enough alone. In Texas, the Longview City Council had approved a plan by property owner Adam Wagner to build five self-storage buildings plus an office – a total of 72,000 square feet – in January 2018. It came with an understanding that a decorative iron fence with masonry columns would…
Jeremiah 229 LLC is building Marlboro Self Storage, a five-story, 80,000-square-foot, 525-unit self-storage facility at 215 Simarano Drive, Marlborough, MA. It’s on a 3-acre site right off of I-495 and is scheduled to open in fall 2019. O’Brien Commercial Properties, which includes Jeremiah 29 LLC, will manage the business. The company also has planned phase…
Please, no black velvet portraits of Elvis or dogs playing poker. After two hours of discussion about the First Amendment and maintenance, the planning commission in Chino Hills, CA, delayed until Dec. 18 any action on a proposed indoor self-storage facility that proposes to put large pieces of artwork on the walls that face the…
