Construction & Development
Construction & Development
The Last Word: Wrenches In Construction
If you are a business owner exhausted of renting commercial real estate and considering purchasing versus renewing your lease agreement that increased substantially, you’re...
Conscientious Conversions: Revitalizing The Past With Adaptive Reuse
Growth in a community is great; it means more jobs, a growing population, new and fun restaurants, and other such improvements that come with...
Pricing Pains: Construction Costs Cause Concern
Widespread market volatility from the COVID-19 pandemic’s ongoing supply chain disruptions, the Russia-Ukraine war, and inflation are causing unwelcome ripples through much of the...
Construction Financing Still Strong
Unsettled world events may have an affect later in year The self-storage industry has been experiencing a financing windfall for several years and most industry...
Kings Of Steel: Mako-Rabco Merger Brings Expertise Nationwide
A few decades ago, a handful of ambitious 20-somethings working in the light-steel construction industry had a similar vision. Though 2,400 miles apart, both...
A Narrowing Pipeline: The Outlook On New Development For 2022 And Beyond
Moderation is the key word for self-storage development in 2022. After peaking in 2018 and 2019, the growth in self-storage inventory has dropped closer...
Let’s Talk Rooftops: Is It Time To Replace Or Restore Your Roof?
There is an argument to be made that a functioning roof is the single most important aspect of any facility. Water intrusion goes far...
Look Who’s Talking: Rachel Parham, President of Noah’s Ark Development
Heading into the fourth quarter, it’s safe to say that 2021 has been a fairly profitable year for the self-storage industry. Rental rates at...
Recipe For Disaster: Extreme Weather, COVID-19, And Rising Construction Costs
Natural disasters, COVID-19, and rising construction costs are proving to be the perfect storm, frustrating owners of new self-storage facilities under construction and those...
Post-Pandemic Deals: Performing Due Diligence in Trying Times
For the self-storage industry, 2020 was an outstanding year with an unprecedented amount of new capital entering the sector. Some of this can be...
Modern Money Maker: A Self-Storage Renovations Case Study
Self-storage as we know it today has been around for more than half a century. While we’ve seen new facilities multiplying in record numbers...
Designs Of The Day: Will The Changing Economy Impact Self-Storage Architecture?
Recent architectural trends in self-storage appear likely to continue in 2021, some industry experts say. These trends include contemporary exterior designs that meet municipalities’ growing...
Staying Power: Thirty-Five Years Of Capco
“From humble beginnings come great things” is a saying that isn’t attributed to anyone in particular, but it is definitely fitting as the motto...
Self-Storage Renovations: What Other Industries Have Taught Us
You might be thinking, “How are self-storage renovations the same as other business renovations? They are completely different industries.” Although these businesses are not...
Canopy Covered RV Installation Best Practices for Storage Facility’s Businesses
Baja Carports Baja Constructions’ in-house design engineers and project managers place emphasis on the proposed site’s layout first; “fact-checking” the property for its canopy...
Is It A Great Site? Factors To Consider Before Developing Self-Storage
From vacant big box buildings and urban infill locations to parcels in secondary markets or municipalities with high barriers to entry, there is no...
Hindered Performance: The Continuing Impact Of Elevated Development
Self-storage has been a booming asset class within the commercial real estate industry in recent years. Driven by migration of an increasingly mobile population,...
The Sky’s The Limit – Architectural Trends In Self-Storage
The days when storage facilities consisted of rows of single-story metal buildings sprawled out over large parcels within industrial locations seem to be nothing...
Capital Markets And COVID-19: How Bad Will the Damage Be?
When asked how coronavirus was affecting the self-storage industry, Neal Gussis didn’t have to think of an answer; he had already been ill during...
Catering To Millennials
The Most Diverse Generation With One Common Trend As one of the largest generations, millennials are a constant topic of discussion. Businesses of all sizes...
The Zoning Maze
Finding the Right Path for Permits and Zoning New self-storage facility
developers have generally had luck moving their projects from the industrial
and warehouse zones areas...
Farther Afield
Exploring Tertiary Markets Growth—it’s the universal trend
of post-World War II America. When our central cities, and later our suburban
areas, expand in total population and in...
Drafting Developments
Trends In Self-Storage Design By Judy Colbert “When the last recession hit,”
says Ken Carrell, principal of ARE Associates in Lake Forest, Calif., the city
of Escondido,...
Stop! Do Not Pass Go
Feasibility Study Required In the game of Monopoly, players move their piece around the board in an attempt to purchase as many properties as possible....
Tapered Growth
Has The Industry’s Development Cycle Passed Its Peak? The self-storage industry has been
living in a fantasy world for the past few years, a kind of...
Restoring Your Doors
Step-By-Step Instructions For Two Do-It-Yourself Options By CJ Steen One of the toughest questions when remodeling anything is what
color white did I originally pick? Was it...
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Is It Time for a Self-Storage Renovation?
How To Assess and Plan for Renovations at Your Self-Storage Facility
As any facility owner knows, it’s essential not to...
AZSA 23rd Annual Conference & Trade Show and Golf Tournament
Register for Hotel Here Member Rate - Regular admission is $230 until 2/11/23
February 15-16, 2023
23rd Annual Arizona Self-Storage Conference &...
4 Lessons the Self-Storage Industry Can Learn From Big Brands
Remember when you thought the best instant photos were Polaroids and Sears was the only place to buy appliances?...
The Truth about Self-Storage Lead Aggregators
Over the last decade, the self-storage industry has witnessed the rise and fall of several specialized lead aggregation websites....
Owning Your Stress For Success
It’s no secret that today’s work environment is stressful. With our current economy, labor force, and global supply chain,...
