Happenings

XPS Solutions, a provider of outsourced technology solutions for the self-storage industry, has hired Don Lazuka as director of rentals and remote management. He has more than 20 years of self-storage industry experience, according to the company...

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 July...

Update 7/20/23 – Self-storage REITs Extra Space and Life Storage have completed their merger following yesterday’s shareholder approval. The combined company creates the largest operator in the industry, with more than 3,500 locations comprising...

The driver of a stolen car crashed into a self-storage building in Springfield, Missouri, on Wednesday. The accident happened at Mother Road Mini-Storage in the early morning hours, according to the source...

Update 7/20/23 – Stack Storage received municipal approval for its four-story project in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The zoning board also granted several variances, including a request to change the number of street-parking spaces from the required...

The walls at 1st Avenue Mini Storage in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, are being transformed by multiple works of art this month as part of ColorBlock, an annual community program that selects artists to paint murals on buildings. The self-storage...

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

Police seized more than $11.3 million in counterfeit goods on Monday from a Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, self-storage unit after responding to a report of multiple gunshots in the area. The items discovered at the Extra Space Storage facility...

Police are searching two self-storage units in Amityville, New York, that have been linked to the prime suspect in the Gilgo Beach murder of four women. The search warrant was executed at Omega Self Storage facilities after investigators scoured...

U Hold The Key, which operates 12 container-based self-storage facilities primarily in Northeast England, recently won the “Best Operator of Multiple Sites” award from the Container Self Storage and Traders Association (CTSA), a U.K.-based...