Author: Shinil Krishnan

A management company that owns a Route 9 shopping plaza near the Amherst town line is considering adding a large self-storage development to an undeveloped portion of the property. At the Planning Board meeting Tuesday, Christian Brannelly, management director at Chestnut Realty Management in Boston, presented a conceptual drawing of an 82,500-square-foot project featuring an unspecified number of non-climate-controlled storage units. The development would go on a 5-acre portion of 16 acres that are mostly wooded at the rear of the Campus Shopping Plaza at 438-454 Russell St. That site…

U-Haul® Moving & Storage of Palmetto at 7735 U.S. 41 will host a grand-opening celebration and free lunch from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27 to unveil Florida’s newest indoor self-storage and retail facility. The public is invited to enjoy food, U-Haul giveaways, and take a behind-the-scenes tour of the facility. Lunch will be served on a first-come basis. The three-story, 75,561-square-foot building includes 1,200 self-storage rooms with high-tech security features and climate-control options at affordable price points that are now available to rent. The property also houses an…

Manchester, NH 2023 was another record-breaking year for True Storage. Throughout the year True Storage delivered 602,800 net rentable s/f across nine projects. The completions included locations in Enfield, CT, Columbus, GA, Methuen, MA, Frenchtown, MI, Akron, OH, Providence, RI, Fort Atkinson, WI, Flint MI, and Conyers, GA. The team converted a Walmart, Kmart, Dicks Sporting Goods, two grocery stores, a ShopKo and finished two ground-up sites. “2023 was a true showcase of how dynamic and focused our team is on delivering top-quality storage properties to market,” said Chris Lewis,…

FHCP owned the almost 98,000-square-foot, three story building at 1340 Ridgewood Ave. since 1990, according to the Volusia County property appraiser’s website. The 6.28 acre property was sold in August for $6.4 million and renovations are underway for the new storage facility. Also, according to the property appraiser’s website, the owner is Holly Hill QOZ Self-Storage LLC, an entity of Inland Real Estate of Oak Brook, Ill. “Inland Real Estate Acquisitions LLC is committed to using its expertise, integrity and innovation to identify, negotiate and acquire diverse commercial real estate…

Manhattan Mini Storage doesn’t just want a bigger bite of the Big Apple self-storage market. It’s now eyeing expansion into New Jersey too. Two years after its purchase by StorageMart, Manhattan Mini, a well-known self-storage operator on the island of Manhattan, announced earlier this month it was expanding its brand to Brooklyn and Queens, its first foray into the city’s outer boroughs since the storage firm’s founding in 1978. Two StorageMart facilities were converted to the Manhattan Mini brand, bringing the total number of Manhattan Mini outlets to 20 in…

  A vacant warehouse would be turned into an ExtraSpace Storage self-storage facility under plans prepared by Dean Architects. Ferry Square LLC is proposing to reuse the building at 160 Dupont/294 E. Ferry Street but needs Preservation Board and Zoning Board of Appeals approvals. The proposed project will remove/infill brick to enhance and stabilize the façade and increase overall building transparency. A separate application for the façade improvement is pending before the Preservation Board due to the site being within the Hamlin Park Historic District. The project will also incorporate…