Work is expected to begin this spring on the construction of a three-story U-Haul self-storage facility in Los Lunas.
The building will measure around 90,000 square feet, and will go up on a nearly 10-acre site to the west of Interstate 25 and east of Willow Road NW.
The facility will feature up to 650 indoor storage rooms designed to be Americans with Disabilities Act compliant. Those units, as with most U-Haul facilities across the country, will also have high-tech security and climate-control options.
In a statement, Tom Neil, president of the U-Haul Company of Northern New Mexico, remarked that “opening a convenient self-storage facility with clean, spacious storage options is important to meet customer demand.”
Neil added that there is currently “insufficient high-quality storage in Los Lunas and we will change that with a building that will make the city and local residents proud.”
There are, to date, fourteen owned-and-operated U-Haul facilities in the Land of Enchantment, in addition to nearly 110 U-Haul neighborhood dealerships.
Founded in 1945 and based in Phoenix, U-Haul currently has more than 2,000 self-storage facilities nationally.
The company launched its self-storage operations in 1974 as segregated chain-link protected spaces within existing buildings. U-Haul began to build its own storage facilities in the 1990s.
In the last several months, the company has announced plans to put up new facilities in Las Cruces; and both Durango and Loveland in Colorado.
Work on the new Los Lunas facility is expected to be completed sometime in 2023.
By Garry Boulard