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…
Metro Storage LLC opened new self-storage facilities in November, with one at 16 Wilmington West Chester Pike (Route 202) in the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds Ford, PA, and the other at 847 Deerfield Parkway in the northwest Chicago suburb of Buffalo Grove, IL. The Chadds Ford site has 119,400 overall square feet, including 83,000 square…
How does 1,850 units sound for one self-storage facility? How about 2,100? Treasure Island Storage of Brooklyn, NY, plans to build a couple of large self-storage facilities in New York City. One is at 79-40 Cooper Ave. in Glendale, NY, with 130,000 square feet and 2,100 units—all in one building. In addition, Treasure Island will…
Hope Lane Storage is ready to open at 83 Hope Lane in an industrial park in Eastsound, WA, on Orcas Island. Dalgarno Construction built and owns the facility. The first building will be available for rental Dec. 1, the second building on Feb. 1, 2019, and the third building on April 1, 2019. Source: The…
Talonvest Capital Inc., which is based in Irvine, CA, has closed $48 million of construction loans for self-storage facilities in Hawthorne, CA, and Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA. The Hawthorne transaction was $20 million for the William Warren Group to build a four-story, 113,625-square-foot site at 4959 W. 147th St., off the 405 Freeway. It’ll be an…
In Gary, IN, Midwest Self-Storage Development LLC of Valparaiso seeks to purchase a former Ultra Foods site on Ridge Road, between Colfax and Calhoun streets. A Menards store is there, and Midwest wants Menards to renew its lease when it ends in 2019. Midwest wants to convert the vacant supermarket space of 69,000 square feet…
There’s a self-storage boom going on in New Orleans, LA, with at least 16 projects underway that will add more than 1 million square feet of space – enough to cover Canal Street from the Mississippi River to Interstate 10. Development eased after the 2008 recession and it was hard to get financing. “But now…
DealPoint Merrill has bought a former Kroger-anchored shopping center that sits on 13.5 acres at 13333 Eureka Road, Southgate, MI. Its plans include converting a 109,000-square-foot building into a large CubeSmart self-storage facility with 1,112 indoor units in 90,275 square feet and a 24,500-square-foot building with 200 units of outdoor drive-up self-storage. Construction will start…
The Storage Doctors – Jarrod Dixon and Steve Bartone – are building a self-storage facility at 3203 Fargo Extension in Ashtabula Township, OH. It will have three structures – one of 4,000 square feet, another of 3,000 square feet and a third one of 2,400 square feet. There will be a total of 100 units,…
TDAK Development and Burke Development plan to build a new, 60,000-square-foot self-storage facility in Seffner, FL, and it would be the area’s first new such facility in 18 years. The 6.5-acre site is located at the northeast corner of East Hillsborough Avenue and Pine Street. The project will be built in two phases and result…
