A classic car new storage home

Interest Story has appeared from California area. Time-standard reported that a 1950 ford patrol car will soon be able to drive into a new home after a local storage business donated space for the Fortuna Police Department.

Four Star Mini Storage in Fortuna offered a 10-foot by 20-foot storage space to the Fortuna Police Department last week to house the restored 1950 Ford, which has been painted and rigged to look like a 1950s patrol car. FPD uses the car for special events and parades but its current storage situation was causing it to deteriorate, Fortuna Police Chief Kris Kitna said.

The classic car is currently covered in tarps under a small, open car shelter kept near the city's animal shelter, collecting a layer of dust and cobwebs.

But before the big move, “We have to get it running first,” Kitna said. Before storage became a problem, the vehicle's clutch was malfunctioning. The Fortuna city mechanic will repair it so an officer can drive it over to the storage facility.

Police officers donated their off-time to restore the car and completed the work about eight years ago.

”They put a lot of time and effort into that car,” Kitna said.

One of those officers was Kevin Stonebarger, who now works for the Arcata Police Department. Stonebarger said it took him and fellow restorer Cliff Chapman, who now works for the Roseville Police Department, about two years to complete the project.

”Everything on the car is basically new ...,” he said. “We rebuilt the whole
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Four Star Mini Storage owners Jim and Sharon Redd heard about the department's need for storage space and realized they had a vacant space suited for the vehicle, Sharon Redd said.

”We're just trying to help out the community,” Redd said. "

Self Storage donate to AIDS $250.000

A San Diego self-storage operator has donated $250,000 to programs that provide relief and prevention for HIV and AIDS worldwide.

A-1 Self Storage has 17 facilities in the greater San Diego area and more than 40 locations across California. It is division of the Caster Cos., which specializes in the acquisition, development and management of self-storage and other commercial property. A family-owned business, its portfolio includes more than 4 million square feet of real estate.

Refund deadline for storage unit in South Dekota

South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulation has set out reminders to mini storage businesses and their customers that the deadline is fast approaching to file for refunds on their sales taxes paid for mini storage.



Under a law passed in 2009. owners of mini-storage and self-storage businesses the area have until the 1st of October to apply for a refund on sales taxes they paid to the state.

South Dakota Supreme Court ruled that gross receipts from mini-storage and self-storage units are no longer subject to the local sales tax.

Hay sorry its been a while since our last post. Lots of changes and lots of coming and going at this end.


A new high-tech self-storage facility recently opened in the Chandler, Ariz. C3 Modern Storage―the Cs stand for “clean, cool and convenient”―offers upscale architecture, This place appears very high tech, it has a wine vault secured by a retinal scanner, gun-storage lockers, safety-deposit boxes, all individual unit have alarms, a conference center, a copier, Internet access, and an entertainment center complete with a flat-screen TV and videogame console. The facility is managed by Judy and Greg Verkuilen.

this place has four-level, 114,000-square-foot facility was the idea of Phoenix-based Vivo Development Partners.

Developers turn to Storage

Another interesting story from Inside Self Storage.

Developers struggling to find successful projects to build in the Memphis, Tenn., area have turned to self-storage facilities and apartment complexes. In recent months, two large storage facilities and have been proposed in Shelby County. Developers site the mortgage and foreclosure crisis as having killed demand for residential building.



The Memphis City Council recently approved the Germantown Storage Planned Development, owned by Jack Johnson. In addition, the Land Use Control Board endorsed a self-storage project as part of the Cordova Ridge Planned Development.

Wesley Ashworth, vice president of Prime Development Group, said his company has not done a residential development in almost two years. He is working with Johnson on the Germantown project, which will have feature 340 interior units and 115 outdoor spaces.

Storage Loin

News from Fox, Reported a Colorado wildlife officers captured a mountain lion in an east Denver storage shed over the weekend.

They tranquilized the big cat, which was first spotted by a man who called the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department.

The man told the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department he saw the lion run into a storage shed Sunday morning in a location about six miles south of Denver International Airport. , Deputies sealed off the area and called the Division of Wildlife.

The mountain lion was a female about 18 months old and weighed about 65 pounds. Wildlife officers planned to evaluate the lionthen tag her and release her in the mountains.

There were no injuries.

Point of Sales insurance vetoe

Inside self storage reports that the New York Governor David Paterson last week vetoed a bill that would have made it easier for self-storage operators to offer point-of-sale tenant insurance with in New York.

The Department of Insurance raised concerns about other laws that might be affected by the proposed measure and disputed the proposed effective date. The rejection came even though the national Self Storage Association and New York Self Storage Association had addressed the issues with the department, and the bill had already passed the state Assembly and Senate.

Senate Bill 3477 would have amended the insurance law, authorizing the issuance of limited licenses to self-storage operators and allowing them to sell insurance coverage on personal property stored in self-storage units. Similar legislation has been passed in 10 other states, including California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Washington.