Category: Development News

Hernandez Development has unveiled a new Class A self-storage facility in Carol Stream, Illinois. The development is set on a 2.71-acre site along North Avenue, bringing much-needed climate-controlled storage solutions to the area. The new facility will feature a modern three-story building along with an additional one-story structure, offering a combined 72,860 net rentable square feet. Designed to meet the diverse storage needs of the community, the facility will house 638 climate-controlled and non-climate-controlled storage units, including 50 premium drive-up units, providing easy access and optimal protection for stored items.…

H-E-B, the highly sought-after Texas grocer, is building a supermarket in the popular Las Colinas area of Irving on a site at Interstate 635 and Olympus Boulevard purchased from LaTerra Development, a leading real estate investment and development company. LaTerra will build 161,000 square feet of self-storage adjacent to the H-E-B store on seven acres that it retains of the 19.5-acre property, a long-shuttered Fry’s Electronics site. LaTerra plans to repurpose the former Fry’s Store into a 161,250-square-foot Self Storage facility with construction slated to begin later this year. The…

BestBox Storage has opened another location in New Caney, Texas – according to an official email from a company spokesperson. The company opened another New Caney location at 26210 FM 1485 in December and a Porter location at 22041 FM 1314 in mid-January. According to the email, the business offers self-storage options for rent that are guarded with security features such as: 24/7 video surveillance Coded gate entry Lock checks Protection plans A fourth Lake Houston-area BestBox Storage location is slated to open soon at 12910 Garrett Road, Houston. Opened…

North Palisade Partners, a development and investment firm focused on industrial, self-storage and industrial outdoor storage, has expanded its self-storage platform, hiring industry veteran Steve Cobbs to lead self-storage for the firm. With nearly 30 years of commercial real estate experience, Cobbs was named managing director of North Palisade Self Storage. Before joining North Palisade, Cobbs most recently served as a director at Invesco Real Estate where he was the self-storage sector lead. Cobbs will hold responsibility for self-storage asset acquisitions, overseeing the deal sourcing, due diligence and transaction executions.…

U-Haul® has purchased a 7.78-acre lot off West Neubert Road with plans to build a state-of-the-art retail, moving and self-storage center to better meet the needs of Grand Chute residents. The property was acquired on Aug. 22. Plans call for U-Haul Moving & Storage at Northland Ave. to be completed by summer 2026. The primary three-story facility will house more than 1,000 climate-controlled self-storage units with high-tech security features at affordable price points; a sprawling retail showroom with boxes, moving supplies, towing accessories, bike racks and more; a bay to…

Previous plans for a project site at 1035 Howard Street in SoMa, San Francisco would have expanded the building size. Now, new plans have been filed to convert the industrial Art Deco building into a self-storage complex. The storage facility will rise four stories high. Embarcadero Capital Partners is the project developer. Lundberg Design is responsible for the project’s architecture. The project site spans an area of 28,000 square feet. The scope of work includes the conversion of approximately 17,549 gross square feet of existing laboratory and office space to…

U-Haul has completed and will officially open in September a 60,880-square-foot self-storage facility in Lebanon, PA. The site for the new building had been in use since the 1880s when it housed a rolling mill. Throughout the 20th century, the property served various purposes and was once a silk manufacturer and a weaving company up until the 1990s when the main manufacturing building caught fire. U-Haul had purchased the property in 2022 and began the self-storage development process through its Adaptive Reuse program. The three-story facility features 830 climate-controlled units…

StorageBlue, the most dominant self-storage company in North Jersey and brainchild of E! Entertainment Television Founder Alan Mruvka, today announced the grand opening of their new self-storage facility, StorageBlue Clifton, located in and serving the City of Clifton, NJ. The Class A facility is strategically located at 550 Lexington Ave and offers 50,000 plus square feet of self-storage space, with units ranging from 4’x4′ to 10’x 20′. The facility sits on the heaviest trafficked main avenue in Clifton where 25,000 plus vehicles pass by daily. “Clifton and its surrounding cities…

Storage of America (SOA) has facilities in six states, including Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Founded in 2003 by Robert and Joni Walker, SOA specializes in converting under-used or empty buildings into nice climate-controlled self-storage facilities. And on Saturday, Aug. 24, the Walkers held a grand opening for their newest facility — in Goodman. Joni Walker said SOA acquired the vacant Hunte Corporation building in Goodman and began remodeling. It has opened the first phase of the building comprising about 200 indoor, climate-controlled units ranging from units as…

Hernandez Development has announced that its new self-storage facility is now open in Bolingbrook, according to a release from the business. The Bolingbrook CubeSmart Self-Storage is a Class A, 3-story facility that is 100,182 square feet, and offers 816 climate-controlled units, the business said. It is located at 509 E. Boughton Road. “The foresight and efficiency of the Mayor, Community Development Director, and the planning and zoning commission, along with the diverse culture and variety of industries in the area, have drawn us to the village of Bolingbrook,” said Hernandez…