{"id":1004121997,"date":"2015-06-25T03:37:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T11:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/?p=353727"},"modified":"2022-12-01T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T03:57:34","slug":"metro-storage-riding-the-chicago-industrial-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/metro-storage-riding-the-chicago-industrial-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Storage Riding the Chicago Industrial Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ioana Neamt, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/06\/3240-W-Touhy-Ave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004122053\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/metro-storage-riding-the-chicago-industrial-wave\/3240-w-touhy-ave\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/06\/3240-W-Touhy-Ave.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"503,230\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"3240 W Touhy Ave. &#8211; Skokie IL\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/06\/3240-W-Touhy-Ave.jpg?w=503\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1004122053 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/06\/3240-W-Touhy-Ave.jpg\" alt=\"3240 W Touhy Ave. - Skokie IL\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/06\/3240-W-Touhy-Ave.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/06\/3240-W-Touhy-Ave.jpg?resize=300,137 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rising to meet the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/researchcenter\/research-center-cpe-research\/market-reports\/market-snapshot-chicagos-industrial-indestructible\/1004113780.html\"><em>high demand for storage space<\/em><\/a> in Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrostoragecorporate.com\/\">Metro Storage, LLC<\/a> is developing an 884-unit, state-of-the-art facility in Skokie, Ill.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release, the company has recently purchased a former retail building at 3240 W. Touhy Ave., with plans to repurpose it into 86,000 square feet of climate-controlled storage space. The new Metro Self Storage facility will feature multiple loading and unloading access points, a high-tech security system, as well as a modern business office. The two-story building will ultimately incorporate 884 controlled-climate units ranging from 25 to 300 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew this property was a good selection for conversion due to its excellent location on an extremely busy east\/west arterial street with a dense three mile population, strong market demographics and a great retail building,\u201d Blair Nigel, CEO of Metro Storage, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The now-vacant building is part of the Town Center Plaza shopping center at 3220-3240 W. Touhy Ave., on the border between Chicago and the suburbs of Skokie and Evanston. Construction work on the new facility will begin later this summer, with completion scheduled for early 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Once finalized, the building will be the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Metro Self Storage facility in the Chicago area. The company has recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/cities\/chicago\/660-unit-self-storage-facility-planned-for-suburban-chicago-3\/1004117224.html\">plans to convert a former warehouse<\/a> in Northbrook, Ill. into a storage facility with 660 climate-controlled units.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rendering courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrostorage.com\/\">Metro Storage, LLC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising to meet the high demand for storage space in Chicago, Metro Storage is developing an 884-unit, state-of-the-art facility in Skokie, Ill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1305,"featured_media":1004122053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491,21742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004121997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Metro Storage Riding the Chicago Industrial Wave - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/metro-storage-riding-the-chicago-industrial-wave\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Metro Storage Riding the Chicago Industrial Wave\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rising to meet the high demand for storage space in Chicago, Metro Storage is developing an 884-unit, state-of-the-art facility in Skokie, Ill.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/metro-storage-riding-the-chicago-industrial-wave\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-25T11:37:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-02T03:57:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/06\/3240-W-Touhy-Ave.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"503\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"230\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"the Editors of CPE &amp; 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