Self Storage Market of the Month: Waterbury, CT – Featuring Drive Time Analysis

StorTrack’s featured market this month is Waterbury, CT. Waterbury is Connecticut’s fifth-largest city and named for its abundant waterways. It has been nicknamed as the Brass City for its large brass industrial interests. How is Waterbury as a self-storage market and is it a good place to consider investing in? We’ve used StorTrack’s Explorer platform to look at some metrics to analyze its potential as a self-storage investment.   Self Storage Market Metrics for Waterbury, CT (10 Minutes Drive Time) We’ve utilized our new Drive Time tool to define and analyze this…

Featured Broker: Jon Danklefs

First Vice President Jon Danklefs joined Marcus & Millichap in October 2012, was promoted to Senior Associate 2016 and was appointed to First Vice President Investments in 2020. Based in San Antonio, Jon focuses his brokerage efforts on self-storage properties in Central and South Texas and has successfully closed sales in San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Laredo, the Rio Grande Valley, El Paso, Permian Basin, West Texas, Houston and East Texas. In addition to self-storage, Jon has a track record of success with multiple land development and redevelopment sales. Taking full…

Janus International Group Introduces the NS Series Self-Storage Door Solutions

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…

Compass Self Storage Opens State-Of-The-Art Storage Center in Eagle Lake, FL

Compass Self Storage, a member of the Amsdell family of companies, proudly announces the opening of their brand new, state-of-the-art storage center located at 1685 Hwy 17 N in Eagle Lake, Florida. This Compass location offers over 95,800 net rentable square feet and represents the company’s 33rd location in the state of Florida. Compass is also partnering with the Greater Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce to hold a “grand opening” ribbon-cutting event today, Wednesday, July 10th at 11 am. All are welcome to visit and tour the brand-new storage center…

SAFStor Launches SAFHarbor Opportunity Fund, LLC to Develop Three Self-Storage Facilities Across the United States

SAFStor, one of the nation’s largest developers of Class A self-storage, announced today the launch of its latest Regulation D 506(c) offering, SAFHarbor Opportunity Fund, LLC. The Fund intends to raise $23 million from accredited investors for the development of three self-storage facilities in strategic locations across the United States. The Fund plans to develop its Gen-V self-storage facility at the following three sites: An approximately 3.0-acre site located in Morrisville, Pennsylvania to be developed into an 861-unit self-storage facility. An approximately 1.8-acre vacant land site located in El Paso,…

Self-Storage and Commercial Development Planned in Nocatee, FL

The PARC Group is advancing plans for a mixed-use development in the Nocatee master-planned community, including an 11,875-square-foot commercial building and an 89,000-square-foot self-storage facility. St. Johns County is reviewing project plans for “Project Adventure Retail,” submitted on June 25. The PARC Group made a service availability inquiry with JEA on May 27. Sonoc Company LLC of Jacksonville owns the 2.66-acre site at southeast Adventure Trail and Crosswater Parkway. Jacksonville-based Blackstone Engineering is the civil engineer. Site plans show 64 parking spaces. The commercial building will be 30 feet tall…

Recent Transactions: 7.09.2024 – 7.15.2024

Property: A Plus Storage Location: Kingston, MA Buyer: Merit Hill Capital Broker and Brokerage: Brendan Carney of The de Jong | Becher Team of Colliers (represented the sellers) NRSF: 36,350 Unit Count: 303 units Contact: Tom de Jong (tom.dejong@colliers.com) and Jacob Becher (jacob.becher@colliers.com) – For more information on this transaction, pricing or to inquire about future self-storage acquisition and disposition opportunities   Property: Cal Self Storage Location: Hayward, CA Address: 26869 Mission Blvd, Hayward, California Seller: The Reeves Family Trust Buyer: Merit Hill Capital Brokerage: The de Jong | Becher…

Featured Broker: Paul J. Divincenzo

Paul started his commercial real estate career with Cushman & Wakefield | CRESCO Real Estate in 2011 after spending the previous two (2) years with Keller Williams Realty. His experience in commercial real estate has exposed him to various segments of the real estate industry. Paul specialized in Commercial Brokerage and Marketing/Research with Cushman & Wakefield | CRESCO Real Estate. Paul has worked on a five (5) person team which had consistently completes over 130 transactions per year. During his tenure as a Vice President, Paul was involved in all…

Self-Storage Consolidation – Is it Real?

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…

Featured Broker: Matthew Wheeler

Matthew is a Director in the Dallas office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. He joined JLL as a part of the HFF acquisition and has extensive experience in commercial real estate across multiple product types, but now operates exclusively as a Self Storage investment advisory expert within JLL Capital Market’s national self-storage team. During the course of his career, Matthew has been involved in more than $5.8 billion in commercial real estate transactions, including more than $2.1 billion of self-storage transactions across portfolio and individual asset sales around the country.…