No more calling out numbers and letters at the 30,000-square-foot Schenectady Bingo Palace near Upstate New York’s Niskayuna. A moving and storage company has purchased the building. The structure, at 1868 State St., is a former furniture store that became a bingo hall in the mid-1990s. Ricky Ramsey, co-owner of A-Metro Self Storage, is investing…
An advertising campaign launched in 1977, complete with a logo and jingle, promoted the slogan “I Love New York.” That also could be the current slogan for self-storage REIT CubeSmart. Following CubeSmart’s $540 million purchase in December of eight Storage Deluxe self-storage facilities in the New York City metro area, CEO Chris Marr and his…
This post is an archive of self-storage development news from February 2021. For the latest news, check out the latest edition of The Roll Up column here. Development news from 2/24/2021: InSite Property Group acquired a development site in San Pedro, CA. Located with visibility from Gaffey St (18,000 vehicles pass per day), the site…
This post is an archive of self-storage development news from January 2021. For the latest news, check out the latest edition of The Roll Up column here. Development news from 1/27/2021 AAA Self-Storage plans to construct a two-story, 76,312-square-foot facility on Lewisville-Clemmons Road in Clemmons, NC. It will be built along the east side of Lewisville-Clemmons,…
This post is an archive of self-storage development news reported during the month of December. For the latest news, check out the latest edition of The Roll Up column here. Development news from 12/2/20: Always Sunny Storage of Winslow, ME, opened a new climate-controlled storage facility at 69 Chaffee Brook Road in Waterville, ME. It’s…
This is an archive of self-storage development news items from the month of November 2020. Development news from 11/4/2020 A 150,000-square-foot self-storage facility and RV storage lot may be going up as part of the 3701 North Pacific Place Project, under development by the Artesia Acquisition Co. in Long Beach, CA. The RV lot would…
An archive of the top self-storage development news items you might have missed. News from the week of 10/14/20: Cysner Properties-Edison was going to convert the 3421 Route 22 East building, former home of a Sun National Bank, into a self-storage facility in Branchburg, NJ. However, after completion of the interior demolition of the building,…
In Georgia, the Sandy Springs City Council approved one self-storage project and denied a second. The council approved a conditional use permit for a three-story, 1,000-unit facility by Taylor/Theus Holdings Inc. at 120 Northwood Drive. The council wouldn’t approve a conditional use permit for RRB Development to build a three-story, 720-unit facility at 8040 Roswell…
Digging dirt? Share your self-storage development new starts and completions with us at editor@sparefoot.com. “I’m very, very disappointed,” Councilman Dave White said. “I have no confidence the office will ever get built. I think you’re going to dumb it down and essentially going to put an industrial area right next to a residential area. That’s…
Liberty Investment Properties hopes to build Liberty Corner – which would house five retail outlets, a restaurant and drive-thru plus a My Neighborhood Storage Center — at the corner of East Colonial Drive and Magnolia Avenue in downtown Orlando. That’ll be just in time, as the Orlando Economic Partnership’s 2030 report said Orlando will add…
