Category: #selfstorage
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US Adds 4.1M Apartments, 500M Sq. Ft. Storage in Decade
America’s shrinking apartments are fueling a self-storage surge. As multifamily construction booms, renters squeezed into smaller units are driving record demand for off-site storage, according to new research from StorageCafe. Over the past decade, more than 4.1 million apartments were built nationwide — over half of them studios or one-bedrooms. During the same period, more than 500 million sq. ft.…
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Where Self Storage Demand Is Strongest—And Why
From Alaska to Alabama, the U.S. is home to nearly 50,000 self-storage facilities — outpacing the combined footprint of McDonald’s, Starbucks, and Subway locations nationwide. At the heart of this growing demand are six key drivers, commonly referred to as the 6 D’s: Downsizing, Dislocation, Death, Divorce — and the more recent additions, Decluttering and Distribution. StorageCafe’s research team…