{"id":9324,"date":"2025-06-24T14:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/?p=9324"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:29:42","slug":"self-storage-facility-proposed-for-former-public-works-building-in-la-salle-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/self-storage-facility-proposed-for-former-public-works-building-in-la-salle-il\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Storage Facility Proposed For Former Public Works Building in La Salle, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"


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An aerial view of the former La Salle Public Works building on 2nd Street and Wright Street on Thursday, April 18, 2024, in La Salle. The 18,000 square foot building and parking lot have been listed for sale. The brick two-story building was the site where the city housed their vehicles and other storage items. The building was appraised at $256,500. (Scott Anderson)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

The future development of the former La Salle Public Works Building, at 500 2nd St., remains in the hands of the city council.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

President of Glenstone Development Nathan Watson, the former president of CL Real Estate Development, presented a plan to redevelop the property.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Watson proposed selling the historic building for $260,000 and redeveloping the property into a coffee shop with potential drive-thru access, a sales office with co-working space, and climate-controlled self-storage.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The building was originally constructed as a car dealership and later repurposed into the city\u2019s armory during the Korean War era before becoming the city\u2019s public works building.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alderman Reynolds took a moment to \u201cclear the air in [the] community\u201d by reiterating that this redevelopment project is purely Watson\u2019s and has no relation to Watson\u2019s previous redevelopment projects with CLRED.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Watson said the estimated total cost of the conversion would be $2.33 million.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The council approved a motion to form a committee to \u201chash out\u201d negotiations. Alderman James \u201cDiz\u201d Demes voted against, saying the city was holding on to the building for a retail space to generate revenue.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Watson said if approved, he hopes to complete some of the project this year, with the remainder of the project to be completed by the end of 2026.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The future development of the former La Salle Public Works Building, at 500 2nd St., remains in the hands of the city council. President of Glenstone Development Nathan Watson, the former president of CL Real Estate Development, presented a plan to redevelop the property. Watson proposed selling the historic building for $260,000 and redeveloping the property into a coffee shop with potential drive-thru access, a sales office with co-working space, and climate-controlled self-storage. The building was originally constructed as a car dealership and later repurposed into the city\u2019s armory during…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":9325,"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\/9324"}],"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=9324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9326,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions\/9326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}