Category: Development News

Self storage company Space Station has announced the latest step in expanding its UK operations with the opening of a new facility in Daventry. The recently announced store has a significant 28,500 square feet of storage space for local customers and businesses, with various sized individual units available to rent. After securing the purchase of the Daventry location from Squab Storage and Removals, the doors to Space Station’s newest store are now officially open for business, with a full site rebrand set to be completed later this year. The acquisition…

Self storage firm UK Storage Company Ltd is to open its biggest nationwide base in purpose-built premises in Sheffield. The firm, which has been offering self storage for businesses and residential customers since 2005, currently has 27 stores across the country and will open its first South Yorkshire operation totalling approximately 15,000 sq ft in early 2022. The 24-hour facility at Tinsley Industrial Estate, in the Lower Don Valley area of the city, has been built to an agreed specification with a glass fronted and canopied entrance and will feature…

Work has now started on a 30,000 sq ft industrial and warehouse business park in Monks Cross, York. The MX Park features 11 industrial units, ranging from 1,925 sq ft to 3,550 sq ft in size, which are available to lease on flexible terms. Experience has shown us these types of units appeal to a wide range of businesses due to their flexible nature and the ability to install mezzanine floors. Monks Cross has been one of the most successful out-of-town developments in North Yorkshire over the past 20 years,…

Newport-based self storage specialists are on course to double in size over the next 2 years, having grown their occupancy rates during the pandemic. The firm, which is the largest private self storage provider in Wales and the second largest in the UK, has sites across Wales, The Midlands and the M4 corridor, and it is pressing ahead with plans to open new sites in Bridgend, Nottingham, and two in the West Midlands in the coming months. We are well positioned and looking forward to opening new sites across the…

A self storage company has re-opened one of its Wrexham storage parks after a £150,000 refurbishment. The work by Lock Stock Self Storage included an extension to its Whitegates facility, which has more than doubled its capacity to 130 units. We have seen incredible demand across all our sites across North Wales and in the borders where we have sites in Shrewsbury and Oswestry and much of it has been driven by the housing market as people look for storage ahead of moving home.” The outfits are already being snapped…

Squab Group, a family-operated storage company with three locations in England, is building a new location in Rubery, England. Hortons’ Estate Ltd. will construct the 15,000-square-foot facility in the Birmingham Great Park on Hollymoor Way. Expected to be complete this year, it’ll also offer offices for rent. Squab operates facilities in Daventry, Evesham and Leamington Spa. In addition to self storage, it provides business centers, conference rooms, document shredding, removals and van hire.

Shurgard Self Storage Europe SARL, the European affiliate of U.S.-based REIT Public Storage Inc., is converting two buildings in Paris to self storage. The first, northwest of Central Paris, will comprise 53,820 square feet in 800 units. The second, in southwest Paris, will have the same square footage in 750 units. Both are expected to be complete at the end of 2022. Shurgard operates 40 locations and has five other projects underway in Paris. The company offers 1.2 million net rentable square meters in seven countries. Source