A pair of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, recently from Uber and Facebook, are the latest to jump into the expanding full-service storage industry with the launch of Trove, a new company that allows customers to schedule pick up, storage and delivery of their belongings via an app. The company publicly launched last month in San Francisco…
A data-loving statistics guru is one factor behind NorthPoint Development’s push to fast become one of the nation’s major players in self-storage. The privately held Riverside, Missouri, company works in industrial properties, multifamily communities and senior living communities as well as self-storage. It has ambitious plans to have 13 self-storage facilities, which it calls Beyond…
Self-storage operators could do a better job of listening to their customers, said Marcus Mollman, founder and CEO of Closetbox, which is fresh off of raising $5.5 million in a round of funding that ended March 22. “I’m not sure anyone in the traditional storage industry has tried to understand what the customer is looking…
Colorado entrepreneur Devin Eldridge has unveiled a new peer-to-peer storage app, and he hopes to get self-storage operators on board as well. Stow, based in Fort Collins, envisions homeowners making extra income from a garage, basement, outbuilding, land or elsewhere on their property. “We want to prove it’s an effective way for people to find…
A New York on-demand storage company has added a serious heavyweight to its executive team. Pete Warhurst, founder of PODS, will join RedBin in an executive role this month. “When I first started RedBin, I knew I wanted to put together an all-star team,” said RedBin founder and CEO Thomas Anderson in an interview with…
Cameron Smith’s son is not yet 2 months old, but already has his first movie credit. His star turn just may help his parents grow their fledgling business, SquirrelBox Valet Storage, in Colorado and eventually in other states. Little Parker pops up 58 seconds into Smith’s upbeat, humorous presentation that won the $20,000 first prize in…
Customer demand drove Terry Drayton to change the name of his pick-up-and-delivery storage company from “Storrage” to “Livible” about one year ago. But over the last three years since the company started, a lot more has changed besides the name. “Customers asked us to help them with much more than storage, so Storrage wasn’t a…
Over the last 15 years, a New York City-based firm has grown to become one of the most active storage developers in the city—responsible for more than 15 percent of the product (by square footage) currently being developed in that market. Founded in 2001, Madison Development has close to 600,000 square feet of self-storage space under development across five…
Handy, a web and mobile-based platform for on-demand household services, is the latest entrant in the city’s growing full-service storage market. Handy is adding valet storage to its line up of other services in the borough of Manhattan with an eye on expanding the service to other markets in the future. Handy’s core offering is on-demand…
Developer Roy Carroll may be new to the storage industry, but he’s already smitten. The Greensboro, NC-based owner of Bee Safe Storage has plans to open one new storage facility a month over the near term. “We’re really putting the resources toward expanding this concept,” said Carroll, who also heads The Carroll Cos., a company…
