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...

AMERCO, the parent company of U-Haul International Inc., is eyeing a vacant Kmart in Pocatello, Idaho, for conversion to self-storage. The planning and zoning commission last week unanimously approved a conditional use permit for the property at...

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...