{"id":8035,"date":"2025-01-07T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2025-01-15T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T15:39:21","slug":"u-haul-opens-new-store-in-the-heart-of-panama-city-beach-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/u-haul-opens-new-store-in-the-heart-of-panama-city-beach-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"U-Haul Opens New Store in the Heart of Panama City Beach, FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8036 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Uhaul_FL.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">U-Haul is serving customers at its first retail, moving and self-storage facility in Panama City Beach.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">U-Haul Moving &amp; Storage of Panama City Beach at 11222 Hutchison Blvd. was acquired on Dec. 17. The former A+ Storage\u00ae location sits on 2.18 acres and is located across from Edgewater Villas, one block from Front Beach Road and the Gulf of Mexico.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">U-Haul of Panama City Beach offers a three-story building with more than 500 indoor climate-controlled storage rooms at affordable price points. Customers also have access to moving trucks and a retail showroom with boxes and moving supplies.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Business hours are 7 a.m.-7 p.m. daily (open till 8 p.m. Friday). Reserve storage or rental equipment on the U-Haul app or call the Panama City Beach team at (850) 708-1349.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We are located in a rapidly growing area of Panama City Beach and will cater to a large customer base that has been underserved,\u201d said Chad Rome, U-Haul Company of South Alabama president. \u201cThis is a new market for us in terms of a corporate store, so we\u2019re very excited about this expansion and look forward to being a valued member of the business community.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Rome is hiring up to 10 Team Members to help staff the facility. U-Haul seeks to hire locally to promote job growth within the communities it serves. U-Haul, founded by a WWII Navy veteran and honored as a Best for Vets employer by The Military Times, actively recruits veterans and gives them hiring preference. Find U-Haul careers at uhauljobs.com.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">U-Haul of Panama City Beach is the 172nd Company-owned store to open in Florida.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">About U-HAUL<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Founded in 1945, U-Haul is the No.1 choice of do-it-yourself movers with more than 23,000 rental locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. The U-Haul app makes it easy for customers to use U-Haul Truck Share 24\/7 to access trucks anytime through the self-dispatch and -return options on their smartphones with our patented Live Verify technology. Our customers&#8217; patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to 192,000 trucks, 138,700 trailers and 39,500 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America with 1,024,000 rentable units and 88.5 million square feet of self-storage space at Company-owned and -managed facilities. U-Haul is the top retailer of propane in the U.S. and the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. Get the U-Haul app from the App Store or Google Play.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i><u><b>Contacts<\/b><\/u><\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Sydney Ellis<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Jeff Lockridge<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">E-mail: <\/span><\/span><a href=\"mailto:publicrelations@uhaul.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><u><b>publicrelations@uhaul.com<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Phone: 602-263-6981<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Website: <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><u><b>uhaul.com<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20241231671371\/en\/U-Haul-Opens-New-Store-in-the-Heart-of-Panama-City-Beach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-Haul is serving customers at its first retail, moving and self-storage facility in Panama City Beach. U-Haul Moving &amp; Storage of Panama City Beach at 11222 Hutchison Blvd. was acquired on Dec. 17. The former A+ Storage\u00ae location sits on 2.18 acres and is located across from Edgewater Villas, one block from Front Beach Road and the Gulf of Mexico. U-Haul of Panama City Beach offers a three-story building with more than 500 indoor climate-controlled storage rooms at affordable price points. Customers also have access to moving trucks and a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8037,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions\/8037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}