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Police have identified a man whose body was found after a fire broke out Tuesday evening at an Oshkosh, Wis., self-storage facility. Frank Larsen, 49, was inside the unit he rented at AAA Mini Storage. The fire at 715-721 3rd Ave. also destroyed...

The global self-storage development pipeline continues to be extremely dynamic. Inside Self-Storage regularly covers new projects being planned and approved as well as zoning and other municipal issues. Following is activity taking place in...

The New Hope, Minn., City Council recently approved a zoning change that limits self-storage development to business-warehouse districts and restricts facilities from commercial and industrial zones. The move was made to encourage uses in...

Extra Space Storage Inc., a publicly traded self-storage real estate investment trust (REIT) and third-party management firm, recently surpassed 100 solar-panel projects with partner Safari Energy. The companies have installed panels on Extra...

OpenTech Alliance Inc., a Phoenix-based provider of self-storage kiosks, call-center services and other technology, launched INSOMNIAC Unit Alarms, a new integration for its OpenTech IoE (Internet of Everything) platform of smart-connected devices...

BlueBox Storage, a Salem, Ore.-based company offering mobile-storage services and container-based self-storage, has opened a new sales office in Portland, Ore., to serve the company’s rapidly growing customer base, according to a press release...

The five largest publicly traded, U.S.-based self-storage real estate investment trusts (REITs)—CubeSmart, Extra Space Storage Inc., Life Storage Inc., National Storage Affiliates Trust and Public Storage Inc.—have announced when and how they will...

Update 2/3/20 – The Macon-Bibb Planning and Zoning Commission voted 3-1 to deny Alexa Development’s plan to convert the former Kroger store on Pio Nono Avenue to self-storage. Company officials indicated they were “shocked” at the board’s decision...

Update 1/31/20 – 10FSSAC2 received another round of equity investment on Jan. 1, which it used to buy a four-property Capitol Storage LLC portfolio in Springfield, Ill., and an unnamed self-storage asset in Dallas. The acquisitions bring the...

Neighbor Inc., a national peer-to-peer self-storage marketplace, has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Neighbor intends to use the money to strengthen its presence in core...