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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.
I'm sure most of you are thinking "That AFB built up all of this suspense just to show us pictures of a storage place!" Honestly, a storage place was on the bottom of my list of possible reuses for my old local Kmart. There are already three self-storage centers on this corner already (not counting this new one), and another storage place that just opened in a former document vault that Harris Corp. sold off late last year less than a mile to the east of here. As you probably remember, I had my bets placed that Publix would buy the old Kmart building and tear it down to build a replacement for their aging, 35+ year old store in the same plaza. I guess that isn't happening, but this would have been their perfect opportunity to do so. But I guess on the flip side, the old Kmart building will end up living on in almost perfectly intact form as the U-Haul Storage Center. The U-Haul Storage Center is in fact open for business, and was open when I was taking these pictures. U-Haul uses the old Garden Center entrance as their main entrance, and the entire main store is where the storage units are contained, and are accessed from the interior entrance inside the garden center.
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.
Make a difference by decluttering your house and pay to put your junk in our storage.
Does not seem like declutter at all. Seems only like reallocation of the clutter and of money.
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.
Looking down the left side of the building toward the old garden center, where most of the action occurs now. This building could use a good pressure washing to get the dirt from the last year and a half of abandonment off. It would make this place look much more appealing to potential storage unit renters looking for a safe place to keep their belongings. Remember, this place is competing with another self storage center located in a big old vault!
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 U-Haul trucks are parked toward the left side of the building, with some more parked toward the front of the lot to face the cars driving by on Babcock. From the looks of the place, you'd think one of the other local storage places was just using the parking lot to store their overflow U-Haul trucks in, rather than this being an entire operational storage facility of its own.
Our Daily Challenge 20-26 September: Public Building.
My first experience of a Self Storage facility today, taking one of my new student lodgers to collect her stuff.
Surreal and bizarre!
A small tornado did touch down a year or two ago near Rio Linda, California. I'm not sure, but this might have been where it happened. On Google Earth, the body of this trailer appears to have been straight at time that its aerial photo was captured.
Elsewhere in the Sacramento hinterlands between Rio Linda, North Highlands, and Antelope, it seems as if the area is specifically zoned for mini-storage and RV and boat storage, and it also seems that half of these places are in some state of dishevelment. I hope to return soon to shoot more photos.
SUN VALLEY - It took the well-coordinated teamwork of 57 Los Angeles Firefighters just half-an-hour to fully extinguish a fast moving non-injury fire that swept through recesses and dense storage, causing smoke and fire damage to more than a dozen rental storage units at a public storage facility in the 7800 block of San Fernando Road on May 1, 2020.
LAFD Incident 050120-0570
© Photo by Mike Meadows
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1999 Volvo FH12 380 curtain-sider operated by David Bletsoe-Brown of Kettering.
On SORN with an export marker showing (no online MoT history).
DVLA have the colour as green.
Founded in 1907, ILG Electric Ventilating Company was headquartered in a 243,600 square-foot building at 2850 N. Pulaski Blvd. The building was designed by Alfred Alschuler. The company was sold to a Michigan-based HVAC company in 1991. Life Storage occupies much of the building Well Made, commercial, wholesale and retail framing company, is also a tenant.
On the site of the old Toohey's brewery in Petersham next to Fort St High School the sculptures created in 1954 celebrate beer production from growing, brewing, hauling and through to serving.
The site is now a Kennards self storage site.
Beadle’s sculptural work drew upon influences from the Hallstatt Culture of the early iron age, West African Ashanti bronzes and combined these with references to life in modern New Zealand. According to art historian Mark Stocker, Beadle was “New Zealand’s foremost internationally recognised medal maker.
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The rebuilt Shurgard self-storage warehouse on Purley Way nears completion as a tram for Wandle Park passes. The previous building was destroyed by a major fire on 31 December 2018. The two chimneys were part of Croydon B Power Station, the site of which is now occupied by an Ikea store.
Purley Way, Croydon.
Lockdown day 158 walk. 28 August 2020
Photo taken for Scavenge Challenge July 2011 #9 - Ant's Eye View.
Seen at U-Store Self Storage in the Sullivan's Gulch neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.
www.extraspace.com/infographics/solarpower/
Solar Savings: A Solar Innovation Story from ExtraSpace.com is a new infographic by InfoNewt and designer Jeremy Yingling. This one tells the story of how the company is adding solar panels to the roof space on some of it’s self storage facilities all across the country. The environmental, financial and community benefits are huge, and this was only the first year of a multi-year plan.
Extra Space Storage is on a mission to produce solar powered clean energy and reduce the carbon footprint of our 850+ self storage facilities. We aim to install 20,000 solar panels this year, and increase the pace of panel installation every year. Energy efficient clean power is good for our customers and our neighborhoods, our planet, and our investors. By the end of 2011 this program will save 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide and 100 acres of fir trees.
The building has some great views over the city including this one of what some people may say is another one of Glasgow's abandoned buildings.
Part I >> Part II >> Part III >> Part IV >> Part V >> Part VI >> Part VII >> Part VIII
Check out the video of our explore created by Kebab.
Abandoned Scotland Online
Gabe greets all at this self-storage warehouse. What cool glasses, blue shoes, and Western bow tie!
Uh-oh, his finger has fallen off.
Background: Gabe was a real man. Immigrating to Owensboro with his family, Gabe Fiorella grew up to become a successful entrepreneur, restaurateur, and hotelier. A past president of the Kentucky Restaurant Association, Gabe and eventually this statue once stood in front of Gabe's Tower Inn before it was moved to this self-storage facility. Mr. Fiorella passed away in 2009 at the age of 76.
The building has been fairly cleared out with only a few bits and bobs left over. This leaves each floor open giving some great vanishing point shots.
Part I >> Part II >> Part III >> Part IV >> Part V >> Part VI >> Part VII >> Part VIII
Check out the video of our explore created by Kebab.
Abandoned Scotland Online
The building has been fairly cleared out with only a few bits and bobs left over. This leaves each floor open giving some great vanishing point shots.
Part I >> Part II >> Part III >> Part IV >> Part V >> Part VI >> Part VII >> Part VIII
Check out the video of our explore created by Kebab.
Abandoned Scotland Online
Big Orange Storage is a huge self-storage facility where you can rent anything from a small locker to whole rooms to store your precious things. Since opening, it's been very popular with the Micropolis citizens, many of whom don't have huge apartments or living spaces. Ref: D1645-021
SUN VALLEY - It took the well-coordinated teamwork of 57 Los Angeles Firefighters just half-an-hour to fully extinguish a fast moving non-injury fire that swept through recesses and dense storage, causing smoke and fire damage to more than a dozen rental storage units at a public storage facility in the 7800 block of San Fernando Road on May 1, 2020.
LAFD Incident 050120-0570
© Photo by Mike Meadows
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