Nothing to be scared of here, now that the planning board has approved turning a farmers market and garden center that moonlights as a Halloween attraction into a three-story self-storage facility in Brick, NJ.
It would have 147,000 square feet at 151 Brick Blvd. CE Development Management of Columbia, SC was given approval to redevelop the 5-acre property of Berry Fresh Farms (aka Scary Rotten Farms) into an Extra Space Storage facility. It would take up 4,227 square meters at the mall, located on 30 acres at the west side of Bayfield Street.
Source: Asbury Park Press and Brick Shorebeat
Planned
The West Haven Planning Commission gave unanimous approval to a site plan to Newman Realty Partners, based in Delray Beach, FL. Newman plans to build a 122,000-square-foot, three-story, climate-controlled facility at 400 Derby Ave. It will be Newman’s second project in Connecticut, with the first being in Stamford. Source: Newman Partners
Self-storage may be added to the Bayfield Mall, 320 Bayfield St. in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. An Official Plan amendment would allow self-storage use within the mall’s commercial designation, while the rezoning would change the zoning from shopping center commercial to shopping center commercial with special provisions to permit site-specific self-storage uses inside the mall. Source: Barrie Today
U-Haul plans to build a nearly 5-acre, multistory building with more than 90,000 square feet just below the U.S. 411/41 split in Centersville in northwest Georgia at 1411 Joe Frank Harris Parkway SE. U-Haul Moving & Storage of Centersville is scheduled for completion in May 2024. It will include at least 700 indoor units. The site will include truck and trailer sharing, moving supplies, towing equipment, hitch installation, U-Box portable storage containers and more. Source: Northwest Georgia News
The vacant Burlington Coat Factory site on the Enfield-East Windsor, CT town line is closer to becoming a self-storage site. The Enfield Planning Zoning Commission voted 7-0 in favor of a change-of-use permit at 1706 King St.(Route 5). Josh Sullivan is the applicant. Source: Patch.com
The zoning board in Howell, NJ unanimously approved a land-use variance to allow building an Extra Space Storage on the northwest corner of Route 9 and Sunnyside Road. K-Land Corp. and the owners, Advantage Properties LLC, spoke at the meeting. They propose a three-story building for storage on the 2.61-acre site. Source: Jersey Shore Online
Douglas Development Corp., which spent $8.6 million to buy the 68,700-square-foot Stone Straw building in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, D.C., announced it wants to convert the site into self-storage with ground-floor retail. The previous owner was the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which used the space for storage. CubeSmart would manage the business. Douglas said it is Greater Washington’s second-largest real estate developer by square footage under construction. The Stone Straw Co. put up the building in 1931. Source: Washington Business Journal
City councilors in Augusta, ME, some of whom criticized the first draft of a plan to convert the former Kmart site on Western Avenue into self-storage, are considering a revised plan and may vote as soon as Thursday to approve it. The new plan would be to build a three-story structure and also replace standalone single-story buildings with exterior garage doors. Source: CentralMaine.com
Under construction
Stor-All has begun work on a 1.77-acre site to add 35,000 square feet in Gardnerville, NV. It will include 28,000 square feet of enclosed units and 8,000 square feet of covered space for RVs and boat storage. Source: Record-Courier
