The St. Clair, Mo., Board of Aldermen voted 4-0 on Feb. 24 to restrict new self-storage development from the city’s commercial districts. Members of the planning and zoning commission raised the concern that too many storage facilities were being...

Update 2/26/20 – SmartCentres will also add self-storage locations in Aurora and Whitby as part of its partnership with SmartStop. The JV now has 10 facilities under construction or in various stages of development. Together, they’ll comprise...

Update 2/26/20 – Vineland Ventures received approval last week to convert the former ShopRite retail store in Vineland, N.J., to indoor self-storage. The developer agreed to several concessions, such as repairing the surrounding parking lot. Once...

Update 2/26/20 – 31 Tonawanda St. received approval this week to build its two Secure Storage facilities in Tonawanda, N.Y. The $5.25 million projects will be designed by Carmina Wood Morris DPC, a New York-based architectural firm...

The Parma, Ohio, City Council voted unanimously on Feb. 18 to impose a six-month moratorium on new self-storage development. The ordinance was proposed by councilmember Kristin Saban after the city was approached several times by developers...

City officials in Cape Coral, Fla., are considering an ordinance that would ban new self-storage development on Pine Island Road, a 9.4-mile stretch of State Road 78. The area has seen an explosion of new development in the past two years. The...

Gulf Warehousing Co. QPSC (GWC), a provider of logistics and supply-chain solutions, has opened GWC Self Storage in Doha, Qatar. It’s part of GWC Bu Sulba Warehousing Park, a 500,000-square-meter project made possible through a partnership between...

Update 2/13/20 – Cokaliong Shipping Lines Inc. has opened Storage Town in Cebu. The self-storage facility comprises more than 1,000 units ranging from 1.8 to 90 square meters. The company had reservations for nearly 100 units prior to opening...