LAKE FOREST, IL September 12, 2007 – Metro recently opened a new self storage facility in the City of Chicago near the intersection of the Eisenhower and Kennedy expressways at 601 West Harrison Street. The newly converted property contains over 100,000 square feet of drive-in climate controlled self storage product and 50 indoor parking spaces for boat, recreational vehicle, and automobile storage.

The new Metro Self Storage facility features modern storage design in a newly converted warehouse. The facility offers drive-in climate controlled self storage space, covered, drive-in loading and unloading areas and indoor parking for customers. The professionally managed facility offers enhanced security features including 24-hour video surveillance, computerized access, and security cameras in addition to a complete array of moving boxes, moving supplies, postal and mailing supplies.  

 

Metro Storage LLC manages the property for Harrison/Jefferson Holdings, LLC, a joint venture subsidiary of Joseph Freed & Associates LLC and Wynn & Associates.  Metro operates over 50 locations, totalling 3,000,000 square feet, throughout Illinois, Florida and Georgia and now operates over 20 self storage facilities in the Chicago market.   

 

Metro Storage LLC, operating under the trademark Metro Self Storage®, is a fully integrated real estate operating company specializing in the development, acquisition and management of self-storage facilities. Headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, the Company is one of the largest private owner operators of self-storage facilities in the United States. An industry leader since 1973, Metro has been involved in hundreds of self-storage transactions. The Company is soliciting acquisitions nationwide of multi-store portfolios, projects in development, or the management of existing operations. 

 

More information about the firm is available at www.metrostorage.com or by calling Brian D. Blankenship (847) 235-8912.