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All Season Storage is excited to announce the opening of its new facility at 9180 Jeff Hamilton Road, Mobile, AL 36695. This facility features 415 units, encompassing a total of 50,795 rentable square feet, offering both climate-controlled and non-climate-controlled storage options. These units provide secure storage solutions for the communities of Daphne, Mobile, and Fairhope. To ensure top-notch service and management, All Season Storage has partnered with Absolute Storage Management (Absolute). As of May 23, 2024, Absolute has been overseeing the professional self-storage management of the facility, bringing their extensive…

The newly developed Long Beach Self Storage facility, located at 4724 Long Beach Road, Southport, NC 28461, is now open and proudly offering professional self-storage management services through Absolute Storage Management (Absolute). This brand-new facility offers 439 units, encompassing a total of 78,625 rentable square feet. The units include both climate-controlled and non-climate-controlled options, ensuring safe and secure storage solutions for the local communities of St. James, Oak Island, and Caswell Beach. The ownership group has engaged Absolute Storage Management to provide top-tier professional management for the facility, effective July…

JLL Capital Markets led the financing efforts for the six-property portfolio that will primarily serve Central Florida’s Orlando and Tampa markets. JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has arranged a $75 million construction loan for the development of six, purpose-built, Class A self-storage properties totalling 4,082 units in markets primarily serving the Orlando and Tampa, Florida MSAs. JLL worked with the developer/borrower, YourStorageUnits Capital Partners, to secure the four-year construction loan. The six Florida properties are located in Vero Beach, Sebring, Ocoee, Cocoa, Ft. Myers and Ft. Pierce. All of…

By now, we’ve all heard a great deal about everything “smart.” Smart technology, smart buildings, smart solutions, and so on. But do we really understand what “smart” truly entails? In the world of self-storage, some of the first things that come to mind are features such as smart locks, remote gate access, and even remote climate control. Those are absolutely correct and are all important features in an increasingly smart world. But building smart is so much more. It combines infrastructure strategy with the newest technological innovations to create a…

Janus International Group, Inc. (NYSE: JBI) (“Janus” or the “Company”), a leading provider of cutting-edge access control technologies and building product solutions for the self-storage and other commercial and industrial sectors, is introducing two new roll-up door solutions (the “NS Series”) engineered to provide a heightened level of safety and security for self-storage facilities. The NS Series incorporates an enhanced design that includes anchored guides on the floor, ensuring stability and durability. A robust lower bar, equipped with secure clips that smoothly glide within the guides, combines with firmly anchored…

As any industry matures it is natural to see consolidation. Whether it’s the early days of the auto industry, steel, oil, banking, you name it, and maturing industries go through a process of consolidating. So, where is the self-storage industry? Although personal storage as an industry was purportedly started in the US by Bekins (Bekins Van & Storage Co.) in the 1850s, the advent of “individual storage units” started around 1964 in Texas. Public Storage was started in 1972 and an industry was born. Today there are somewhere between 52,000…

Absolute Storage Management (Absolute) is honored to announce its third recognition as “Best of Business” by Inside Self Storage, being named the 2024 Best of Business for Operational Consulting. This prestigious accolade highlights Absolute’s dedication to excellence and expertise in the self-storage industry, solidifying its position as a leader in providing exceptional management services. “This recognition by Inside Self Storage is a reflection of our team’s hard work and our clients’ trust in our expertise,” said Scott Beatty, CEO and one of the founders of Absolute. “We are thrilled to…

At one time, remotely managed facilities were the future of the self-storage industry. But not anymore. That’s right, the future is now for remote management. This model helps maximize both profits and time, keeping you several steps ahead of the competition in the race for customers. And when it comes to races like that, a quote from Will Ferrell’s iconic character from the film Talladega Nights comes to mind: “If you ain’t first, you’re last.” In case you’re unfamiliar with the concept of remote management, it refers to cutting-edge technology…

StorQuest Self Storage has embarked on a significant creative partnership with environmental nonprofits and sustainability-minded surfers. This collaboration, designed to celebrate International Surfing Day, was marked by an Eco Surfboard Giveaway. The aim was to ignite conversations about sustainability within the surfing world and beyond. StorQuest brought together a team that included the nonprofit SeaTrees, a leading organization in marine ecosystem restoration, Sustainable Surf, a pioneer in sustainable surfing practices, and renowned action sports influencer Abe Kislevitz and surfboard shaper Ryan Harris. The fortunate winner of the giveaway contest, Ryan…