Construction & Development
Construction & Development
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...
A Sunny Investment
Capturing The Power In Solar For Business By Tim Arthurs One of the best things about my position as senior
vice president of facilities at Extra...
The Development Challange
Demand, Competition & New Supply Self-storage contractors are holding the blueprints to an
aggressive development cycle that is ushering in a brash new level of
competition. With...
Uncorking The Possibilities
How To Make Wine Storage Work It’s been said that you can make
bad wine from good grapes, but you can’t make good wine with...
The Valuation Question:
Cash Flow Or Cap Rates In the commercial real estate world,
most investors apply value to a property through something called the
capitalization rate or, quite...
On The Rise
Will Self-Storage See Sky-High Construction Costs? By
Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell When
President Donald Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and a 10
percent tariff on aluminum...
The Amsdell Family Tree
Tracing The Roots Of Three Major Self-Storage Operations In 1928, Todd Amsdell’s distant relatives started a construction company that survived the Great Depression of the...
Fable To Fact
Digging Into Industry Data By Cory
Sylvester With the development cycle in its third year, the analysis required to evaluate a new or existing site is becoming...
Underlining Elements
A Business Development Guide Over the past 15 years, many owners and operators within the self-storage industry have experienced such a rapid growth with...
What Does That Mean?
Understanding The Language Of Self-storage By Scott Zucker The self-storage business has been
around, some would say, for over 50 years. During that time, we’ve seen...
No Flat Sites
Topographical Challenges In Self-Storage By Jeffrey S. Dallenbach, AIA, in collaboration with Cheryl L. Cole As the self-storage industry has experienced unprecedented growth...
Looking For Lenders
Solid Construction Financing Exists For Your Self-Storage Project Today’s self-storage facilities are more than concrete walls and steel doors; they have architectural elements and...
Elevators Vs. Lifts
Multistory self-storage units continue growing in popularity as facility owners build higher structures to stack additional rentable space on smaller parcels of lands, making...
Pumping The Brakes
Lenders Cautious On Financing New Storage Development During
the past two years, self-storage has enjoyed the attention of investors and
developers as the industry has experienced rising...
Going Up!
The Evolution Of Multi-Story Storage Facilities It’s no secret that land is scarce and
costly in urban areas, especially within retail areas of the desirable top...
Skydock: The Modern Marina
The Rise Of Urban Powerboat Ownership In some of America’s most developed and densely populated coastal cities, the experience of boating–or, more specifically, boat ownership–can...
What’s The Pace?
A Look At Lease-Up Trends Last year, Memphis-based Jernigan Capital Inc. funded a couple of properties in Central Florida. The two self-storage facilities opened for...
Accelerated Construction
Is There A Threat of Overbuilding? Charles Plunkett, president of CAPCO Steel, has specialized in self-storage construction for the past 32 years; during that time,...
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...
Site Selection Insights
As the self-storage development cycle moves over the crest and onto the downward slope, the low-hanging fruit has been picked. Good sites remain, but...
Competition Clash
New Development Within The 10-Mile Radius After many years of a robust transactional market, the self-storage industry has slowly taken a U-turn toward development....
Danger Zone!
Overbuilding Is Happening Now Imagine yourself as a dinner party
guest 25 years ago, and the following questions had been posed: Who won the 1968 Masters? Do...
Pre-Opening Preparations
Make Lists And Check Them Twice! Everyone will have worked hard to get a new facility open and ready to
show off for the public,...
City Challenges
Self-Storage Developers Face New Costs And Issues New self-storage facility developers have generally had luck moving their projects from the industrial and warehouse...
Retail Stores To Roll-Up Doors
The Adaptive Reuse Of Big-Box Buildings It is no longer, “the best kept secret in real estate,” according to Jeffrey Shouse, national director of self-storage...
No Stone Unturned
Due Diligence Mistakes To Avoid Looking to buy a self-storage store? You don’t have to search the wide landscape. There are more than 50,000 self-storage...
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Storelocal Hercules – Build to Stand Out
As the demand for self-storage grows, so does the number of buildings popping up that often look like a...
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....
