The former Food Lion on Mountain Creek Road near Signal Mountain Road is slated to hold 81,728 square feet of self storage with 718 units.Storage sites
New or planned self-storage units going in or near downtown include:› 2431 Williams St.› 1420 Carter St.› 1105 Dayton Blvd.› 816 Mountain Creek Road
Downtown Chattanooga is seeing so much new housing that residents needing more room to keep their stuff are helping spur a surge in self-storage units in the area, experts say.
One of the latest proposed self-storage projects calls for a four-story, 17,000-square-foot facility just off South Broad Street.
The proposal is at least the fourth self-storage project to emerge downtown, or within a 10-minute or so drive of the central city, over the last few months as developers of the units battle for potential clients moving into the central city.
Ben Berry, of Cleveland, Tenn.-based Berry Engineers, said the proposed South Broad site at 2431 Williams St. backs up to Interstate 24 and is less desirable for residential units.