Author: Shinil Krishnan

  SecureSpace Self Storage today announced the grand opening of a new self-storage facility, SecureSpace College Point, located in and serving the College Point community in the borough of Queens, New York. The newly built class A facility is strategically located at 131-21 14th Avenue and offers 131,691 square feet of 100% climate-controlled self-storage space with units ranging from 5’x5’ to 10’x30’. Already in the vicinity of dense residential neighborhoods with a substantially below-average self-storage supply of less than 2.5 square feet per capita, the facility is less than two…

  One possible future of the office may be self-storage. Case in point: A for-sale 14-story, roughly 300,000-square-foot Los Angeles office building is being considered as a self-storage conversion opportunity by investors. That’s according to Michael Moore, senior managing director of Newmark, who is marketing the building. The property, near Los Angeles International Airport at 5901 W. Century Blvd., also has fielded interest from hotel owners, apartment owners and investors who want to keep the space as an office. No deal is finalized for the office building. However, the self-storage…

U-Haul® will use its eco-friendly Adaptive Reuse program to convert a former Sunbelt Rentals warehouse at 2069 Watson Blvd. into a full-service retail, moving and self-storage facility. U-Haul Storage at Watson Blvd. is already offering trailer and truck rentals, boxes and moving supplies, towing equipment and more out of a temporary showroom. U-Haul acquired the 4.99-acre property on March 31. In addition to renovating and reusing the existing warehouse, U-Haul will add a state-of-the-art, three-story self-storage building and a separate warehouse for portable moving containers. “Expanding our self-storage footprint here…

Another self-storage facility could be coming to Park Boulevard. At an Aug. 8 workshop following its regular bimonthly meeting, the City Council authorized city staff to negotiate a development agreement with the owners of a 6.2-acre property at 10890 Park Blvd. for a 90,000-square-foot, climate-controlled storage facility. The self-storage facility — to be called Seminole Storage — would make at least a half-dozen such businesses situated along the stretch of busy roadway running between Pinellas Park and Seminole. John-Mary Enterprises Ltd. of Tampa owns the property, which sits near Park…