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Kmart is The Storage Place
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores. Was converted into a U-Haul Storage and Truck Rental facility in January 2016.
The old Garden Center entrance, now used as the main entrance into the new U-Haul Storage facility. This door is also where you go to rent a truck, or buy boxes, bubble wrap and similar items. I'm guessing the interior where the storage units are looks like what you can see in these photos here of the former South Pasadena, FL Kmart, which was converted into an Extra Space Storage center (scroll down to see all of the pictures). U-Haul hasn't posted any pictures of this place on their website yet. Maybe one day I'll have to pretend I'm interested in renting a storage unit...
Anyway, for now, that wraps up our journey through the fall, abandonment, and now reuse of the former Palm Bay Kmart. To relive all of those old memories from store #7310, or if you're new to AFB on flickr and want to see these pictures for the first time, you can check out my Palm Bay Kmart album here.
Kmart is The Storage Place
Kmart #7310
4711 Babcock Street NE, Palm Bay, FL - Palm Bay Center
Opened 1979. Closed forever on September 7, 2014, leaving Brevard County with zero Kmart stores. Was converted into a U-Haul Storage and Truck Rental facility in January 2016.
The old Garden Center entrance, now used as the main entrance into the new U-Haul Storage facility. This door is also where you go to rent a truck, or buy boxes, bubble wrap and similar items. I'm guessing the interior where the storage units are looks like what you can see in these photos here of the former South Pasadena, FL Kmart, which was converted into an Extra Space Storage center (scroll down to see all of the pictures). U-Haul hasn't posted any pictures of this place on their website yet. Maybe one day I'll have to pretend I'm interested in renting a storage unit...
Anyway, for now, that wraps up our journey through the fall, abandonment, and now reuse of the former Palm Bay Kmart. To relive all of those old memories from store #7310, or if you're new to AFB on flickr and want to see these pictures for the first time, you can check out my Palm Bay Kmart album here.