Steel trade tariffs imposed by President Donald J. Trump are driving up the cost of self-storage developments already underway or in the pipeline across the nation, causing owners and investors to rework their financing to cover construction. The...

Update 8/23/18 – Metro Storage has opened its conversion of a former lawn and garden shop in North Plainfield. It’s the company’s sixth self-storage location in the New Jersey/West New York market, according to a press release...

Phoenix-based U-Haul International Inc., which operates more than 1,500 self-storage facilities across North America and frequently recycles existing structures for its new locations, plans to convert a former Toys R Us store in Battle Creek, Mich...

Real estate firm Rosewood Property Co. (RPC) has begun construction on a self-storage facility in Tigard, Ore., a suburb of Portland. It’ll be the company’s first location in the area, according to a press release ...

U.K.-based Safestore Holdings PLC has submitted an application in Leeds, England, to demolish a structurally unsound building and replace it with a seven-story, 95,000-square-foot self-storage facility. Supported by financial-advisory firm...

Phoenix-based U-Haul International Inc., which operates more than 1,300 self-storage facilities across North America and frequently recycles existing structures for its new locations, has purchased the former Eagle Electronics building in Colorado...

Phoenix Partners LLC received zoning approval last week to convert a former Kmart store in Roanoke, Va., to interior, climate-controlled self-storage. The 84,000-square-foot building on Franklin Road closed last year, according to the source. ...

Real estate development firm Miller-Valentine Group and self-storage developer Coastal Storage Group have completed construction on a three-story self-storage facility in North Charleston, S.C. The property comprises 90,000 square feet at the...