Author: Shinil Krishnan

Todd Flannery has new services to offer with the opening of his latest business at 111 Locust Street Flannery’s Handymen, his moving company, has been serving the community for more than 20 years, and Flannery has now added his brand-new storage facility, Boston Street Self Storage, to his portfolio. The property where the facility is located had already been owned by Flannery, as it was used to house his moving company’s vehicles. The previous building was brought down and the 12-year process of constructing a new, state-of-the-art facility began. With…

Hunt Midwest is building its sixth and largest StorTropolis, a 112,987-rentable-square-foot self-storage facility in Olathe, Kansas The developer partnered with Strickland Construction and Storage Asset Management to build and operate the property. The project is slated for delivery in September 2024. Upon completion, the three-story, three-building facility is set to include 867 climate-controlled units, ranging from 25 to 546 square feet for boats, RV and other large equipment. Amenities will include 24-hour video surveillance, gated entry, an enclosed loading bay with direct unit access, oversized elevators, an online leasing process…

A high-profile vacant building in Red Wing is vacant no longer. In September, KO Storage opened in the space, formerly occupied by Econo Foods, located at 160 Tyler Road South. The building sat vacant for four years before being repurposed as a storage facility. Construction started in November 2022 after KO Storage acquired the property. “We are excited and privileged to be serving people in Red Wing,” said senior project manager Colin O’Brien. “We could not have done it without local contractors, or the approval of the city to let…

SecureSpace Self Storage today announced the grand opening of a new self-storage facility, SecureSpace Manhattan, located in and serving the borough of Manhattan in New York, NY. The newly-built Class A facility is strategically located at 424 East 90th Street and offers 88,630 square feet of 100% climate-controlled self-storage space with units ranging from 5’x5’ to 10’x30’. With an adjusted one-mile radius self-storage supply of 0.6 square feet per capita, the store offers nearly the sole storage option available to the one-mile population of 225,000 in the most densely populated…

A new 650-unit self-storage facility has opened in Roslyn Heights. Operated by Extra Space Storage, the four-story, 98,000-square-foot building was constructed on a 1.32-acre site at 71 Jane St. Publicly traded Extra Space Storage is the second largest operator of self-storage facilities in the U.S. The new self-storage project, reported to cost more than $12 million, was developed by Syosset-based Blumenfeld Development Group and The Hampshire Companies, headquartered in Morristown, N.J. The property had been home to a 30,000-square-foot building, first built in 1983, that had been occupied by several…