News

Storage Asset Management (SAM), a property-management and consulting firm for the self-storage industry, donated $25,000 to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which specializes in childhood cancers and pediatric diseases. SAM employees chose...

Central States Manufacturing Inc. (CSM), which provides metal-building components and packages for self-storage and other industries, has acquired Storage Structures Inc., which designs, supplies and installs self-storage buildings. Richard Allen...

The Investment Real Estate Group of Companies (IREGC), which specializes in self-storage brokerage, construction and management and operates the Moove In Self Storage brand, has made several staff changes to start the new year...

Three people were arrested for burglary this week at a self-storage facility in Lincoln, Nebraska. Police claim the suspects breached a unit at Sasquatch Self Storage by renting an adjacent space and removing a panel from the shared wall...

Self-storage properties are constantly changing hands, and Inside Self-Storage is regularly notified of these market transactions. Here’s an overview of activity happening in January 2023...

The deadline to apply for a 2023 guaranteed loan or grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) is March 31. The program is open to self-storage operators and other small-business owners in rural...

Two men were injured Saturday when their small plane crashed into a building at Affordable Self Storage in Kent, Washington. The accident at 1721 Central Ave. S. happened at 1:19 p.m., about six minutes into the flight. The structure’s roof and at...

Update 1/6/23 – JPF Development LLC submitted a new design plan for its project in Rochester, Massachusetts. The company plans to split two of the 60-square-foot self-storage buildings into three 30-foot structures. The size of the office has also...

Public Storage Inc., a self-storage real estate investment trust (REIT) and property-management firm, has announced that its current chief financial officer (CFO), Tom Boyle, will also serve as chief investment officer (CIO). Boyle’s new...

Self Storage Plus, a third-party management firm that operates more than 60 facilities across four states and Washington, D.C., has enrolled 62 of its managed locations in a giving program facilitated by Charity Storage, a nonprofit that serves...