{"id":8761,"date":"2025-04-07T08:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T08:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/?p=8761"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:31:52","slug":"baranof-holdings-purchased-an-industrial-land-site-for-28-million-to-pave-way-for-a-new-self-storage-facility-in-hollywood-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/baranof-holdings-purchased-an-industrial-land-site-for-28-million-to-pave-way-for-a-new-self-storage-facility-in-hollywood-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Baranof Holdings Purchased an Industrial Land Site for $28 Million to Pave Way for a New Self-Storage Facility in Hollywood, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8762\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8762\" src=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dallas-Land-Storage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dallas-Land-Storage.png 1113w, https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Dallas-Land-Storage-500x280.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sold: The traded site will pave the way for a new Hollywood self-storage facility.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The largest land sale in Hollywood for the first quarter goes to Baranof Holdings, which acquired a 1.29-acre industrial land site for $28 million.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Dallas-based Baranof Holdings, a developer and asset manager of self-storage facilities, has purchased a 1.29-acre industrial land site in Hollywood for $28 million in order to pave the way for a new Los Angeles self-storage facility.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The transaction marks the largest land sale in Hollywood during the first quarter of the year.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Baranof Holdings acquired the site at 956 Seward St., which previously operated as a parking lot and film storage vault, in March and received entitlements for a new seven-story, 168,000-square-foot Class A self-storage and temperature-controlled film and media storage facility during a 21-month escrow period, which began in June 2023, according to a release.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Focus on self-storage<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The company exclusively manages self-storage properties and boasts over $1.5 billion in asset value to date, since its inception in 2015.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is a great day for Los Angeles, which is greatly underserved with quality storage space compared to other cities in America,\u201d Martin McDermott, cofounder and managing director of Westwood-based commercial real estate brokerage Method Commercial, said in a statement.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Self-storage is critically important support infrastructure for multifamily development and the modern film and media storage will preserve Hollywood\u2019s rich tradition.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">McDermott represented the seller, an unnamed private family office, in the sale. According to him, the escrow period was characterized by significant shifts in interest rates, debt availability and zoning, resulting in a complex transaction.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/labusinessjournal.com\/real-estate\/industrial-land-sells-for-28-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest land sale in Hollywood for the first quarter goes to Baranof Holdings, which acquired a 1.29-acre industrial land site for $28 million. Dallas-based Baranof Holdings, a developer and asset manager of self-storage facilities, has purchased a 1.29-acre industrial land site in Hollywood for $28 million in order to pave the way for a new Los Angeles self-storage facility. The transaction marks the largest land sale in Hollywood during the first quarter of the year. Baranof Holdings acquired the site at 956 Seward St., which previously operated as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761"}],"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=8761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8763,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8761\/revisions\/8763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}