Day: July 15, 2025

How to Optimize Your Self Storage Unit Mix

If you want to maximize your facility’s revenue, occupancy, and customer satisfaction, you’ve got to have the right unit mix. It’s not just about how many units you have—it’s about having the right types and sizes that fit the needs of your market. Whether you’re opening a new facility or reassessing an existing one, understanding how to tailor your unit mix to meet demand can transform your profitability. Start With Market Demand, Not Assumptions Matching your unit mix to local market demands is an exercise in product-market fit. This concept…

Recent Self-Storage Transactions: 07.08.2025 – 07.14.2025

  Portfolio: Eight-Property Self-Storage Portfolio Location: Across Four States Brokers and Brokerage: Ben Vestal, Cole Carosella, and Matthew Cox of The Argus Self Storage Advisors team on behalf of National Storage Affiliates (NSA) NRSF (Combined): 610,500 Highlights: Offers the investor significant in-place cash flow with geographic diversification and scale The sale was a collaborative effort involving four different Argus offices nationwide   Portfolio: Mesquite Self Storage Portfolio [Previously managed by Extra Space Storage] Location: Mesquite, NV Address 1: 675 Mayan Circle, Mesquite, Nevada Address 2: 760 Bowler Drive, Mesquite, Nevada…

Self-Storage Facility Could Replace Century-Old Business in Wilkes-Barre, PA

A self-storage facility could open in an iconic South Main Street building in Wilkes-Barre vacated by a century-old business that has relocated its headquarters to Hanover Township. CAE Self-Storage LLC is seeking a variance to permit the adaptive reuse of a commercial building at 454 S. Main St. into a self-storage facility containing 600 storage units, according to an agenda for Wednesday’s Wilkes-Barre Zoning Hearing Board meeting. CAE is also requesting a variance to waive 29 parking spaces for the proposed use. The building is owned by Petroleum Services Company,…

Blue Door AM I, LLC Announces Launch of Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) Investment Program

Blue Door AM I, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Strategic Storage Growth Trust III, Inc. (“SSGT III”), and an affiliate of SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. (“SmartStop”), is pleased to announce the launch of Blue Door Property II, DST (“Blue Door II”), a new Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) investment program. Blue Door II offers accredited investors the opportunity to participate in the self-storage sector through a diversified portfolio of three debt-free institutional-quality properties located in Orlando, Florida and Pasadena and Corinth, Texas. The Orlando property consists of approximately 680 units…

A Self-storage Facility is Planned Off County Road 210 in St Johns, FL

A 120,000-square-foot self-storage facility is permitted to advance in St. Johns County. The county issued a building permit on July 11 for the $9.26 million project. No rezoning is required. Beachside Self Storage is a four-story, climate-controlled facility at 1490 County Road 210. It is off Pappy Road just outside the Fountains at St. Johns, a mixed-use center with about 30 tenants and an apartment community anchored by Ascension St. Vincent’s Health Centre – St. Johns County, about a half-mile east of Interstate 95. The Fountains is developing its second…