Conversions

Update 6/20/19 – Longview Development has completed its conversion of a former Kmart in Texas. Opened earlier this month, Simply Stor-It offers 566 interior, climate-controlled units, and five drive-up spaces. Boone & Boone Construction Inc...

Update 4/26/19 – Members of the New Castle City Council expressed puzzlement this week over the progress and allowable timeframe for the $50,000 conversion of the former Jefferson Court Motel. Though Taft has installed electrical, added a new roof...

Update 2/6/19 – U-Haul has closed on its acquisitions of former Kmart properties in Springfield and Queensbury. Both self-storage conversion projects are expected to begin shortly...

Update 11/20/18 – Real estate developer Daniel Blanchard of 459 Broadway has acquired the 46,193-square-foot Drescher Paper Box building after securing approvals for a special-use permit and a zoning variance for his self-storage project...

Coda Management Group, a development firm that specializes in self-storage conversions, has partnered with private investors to acquire a two-story commercial building in Toledo, Ohio, that will be redeveloped into a storage facility. The 88,000...

Self-storage developer JSM Venture Inc. has purchased a vacant Kmart in Zion, Ill., for $2.3 million that it intends to convert to self-storage. Plans for the 90,426-square-foot structure at 3355 Sheridan Road include 69,750 rentable square feet...