Author: Shinil Krishnan

  The owners of Stor-It Self Storage have announced they’re opening the business’ sixth location this month, this one in Port Orange. Scott and Todd Vanacore, owners of both Stor-It and Vanacore Homes, are hosting a ribbon-cutting on April 17th. There are currently five other Stor-It locations open for business in the area: three in Ormond Beach, one in Daytona Beach, and one in Bunnell. Two additional locations are slated to open for business in DeLand and Ormond Beach. The ribbon-cutting will be held at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, April…

A new climate-controlled facility offering storage solutions for residential and commercial customers has opened in Lehigh County. East Penn Self Storage on Thursday announced the opening of its newest location at 415 S. Carlisle St. in Allentown. The state-of-the-art facility boasts 296 units covering 25,290 rentable square feet, offering ample space to accommodate various storage needs. Unlike traditional drive-up facilities, East Penn Self Storage’s new location features a fully enclosed, heated environment, providing optimal protection for stored belongings. Additionally, the facility is equipped with loading docks and carts to facilitate…

StorageMart, a globally recognized family-owned leader in the self-storage industry, is pleased to announce the inauguration of four strategically located facilities in the United States. Targeting substantial growth in 2024, StorageMart expanded its network to include new locations in Iowa and Virginia, reinforcing its presence in established markets. These two state-of-the-art facilities, located in Fredericksburg, VA and Urbandale, IA, have a large inventory of storage available. The Fredericksburg acquisition includes 466 storage units and 66,675 square feet, while the Urbandale acquisition adds 393 storage units and 52,595 square feet of…

The Riverhead Planning Board granted preliminary site plan approval Thursday for a new self-storage facility on Main Road in Riverhead. The board unanimously approved the new development, titled Extra Space Riverhead, a two-story 36,250-square-foot self-storage building at 61 Main Road in Riverhead. The property is located next to the Dari-Land ice cream shop, and is the site of a long-vacant house. The Planning Board also discussed a site plan application that seeks to redevelop two existing commercial buildings at 940-946 West Main Street — including the former Blackman Plumbing Supply…

A self-storage business on Powhatan Road near U.S. 70 Business can expand, the Town Council said at a recent meeting. American Self Storage can add 4,500 square feet to an existing building and construct a three-story, 78,000-square-foot building at 3986 and 3936 Powhatan Road. Both buildings will be climate-controlled, and access to units in both will be from the interior only. “It’ll just provide a different product from what’s there right now, just make it a full self-storage facility with external storage, internal storage,” said Bart McClain, project engineer for…

A partnership between San Antonio-based Bakke Development Corp. and Atlanta-based Batson-Cook Development Co. (BCDC) has broken ground on a 773-unit self-storage facility in the Rio Grande Valley city of Weslaco. The site at 1115 Dragonfly Ave. spans 2.6 acres, and the building will rise three stories and span 86,975 net rentable square feet. Project partners include Alamo Architects, civil engineer Halff, general contractor Independent Contractors and construction lender IBC Bank. Completion is slated for the first quarter of 2025. The project marks the sixth self-storage collaboration between the two firms.…

Diamond Point Development, LLC (DPD), in partnership with Castle Hill Investors, LLC, recently opened CubeSmart Self Storage, at 1998 South Road, in Poughkeepsie, NY. This property is a class A, 90,000-square-foot self-storage facility located directly across the street from the Poughkeepsie Galleria, where Osho Japanese Steakhouse was previously located. CubeSmart will serve as the property management company. The principals of Diamond Point Development, brothers Jason Sommer and Aaron Sommer, are originally from Schenectady, NY and are pleased to develop another state-of-the-art self-storage facility in Upstate New York. They have recently…