Mega Storage Partners develops in urban areas. Many facilities have multi-story buildings using elevators or freight lifts to move the goods to the upper floors. These facilities are climate-controlled since they are comprised mostly, if not totally, of interior units.
Although there is historical evidence of publicly available storage in ancient China, modern self-storage facilities (in which the tenant has exclusive access to the storage space) did not begin to appear until 1958, when Lauderdale Storage in Fort Lauderdale Florida (founded by the Collum family) opened for business. In the late 1960s, the first self-storage facility chains started to open in Texas.
Modern storage facilities grew slowly through the 90s, at which time demand outpaced supply and caused a rush of new self-storage developments. From 2000 to 2005, over 3,000 new facilities were built every year in America.