Jon Mooallem profiles the self-storage industry and explores what the explosive growth and current downturn can teach us about America's evolving consumer culture.
Jon Mooallem profiles the self-storage industry and explores what the explosive growth and current downturn can teach us about America's evolving consumer culture. Amazingly we learn that;
After a monumental building boom, the United States now has 2.3 billion square feet of self-storage space. (The Self Storage Association notes that, with more than seven square feet for every man, woman and child, it’s now “physically possible that every American could stand — all at the same time — under the total canopy of self-storage roofing.”) NYT
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I highly recommend this article.
me too.
What we really are going to need though are self-storage centers to store our self-storage centers.
Am I ruining it for everyone if I post this quote?
Boxed haphazardly inside the closet-size space was, as she put it, 53 years of married life... “I got rid of all the furniture,” Elizabeth said, except her own drafting table, which, she pointed out, had wound up against the rear wall. She was an architect, accomplished but out of work (“Architecture is dead, dead, dead, dead,” she explained) and was attacking this project with a conspicuously architect-ish methodology.
I'm going to go get a drink now.
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