KSS April eKourier 2023

PROPERTY

SPOTLIGHT ON MARIBYRNONG VICTORIA

in the rear and as we drive through the centre, we give a guided tour. We have a bit of fun on the way, giving customers a laugh as well as all the centre information they need to know. customer would be Gary. Gary is Agreement Number 8 and he has stored at this centre for 20 years! I wonder if he remembers what he has stored? We’ve also had a couple of celebrities over the years such as Roberta Williams, Megan Gale and Tina Arena. The team at KSS Mariby- rnong is made up of Eli Savic (pictured left) - Centre Manager and Tania Norris (pictured right) – Assistant Manager. Eli has been a part of the KSS family since commencing as an Assistant Manager back in 2008. Eli then went on to become the Centre Manager in 2018, returning to work after having her second child. Eli has recently celebrated her 15th year with KSS. Tania has been the Assistant Manager at KSS Maribyrnong since 2016 after being a Manager at Priceline for 15 years. Tania will be celebrating 7 years with KSS in September 2023. Business has been great! Recently a few square metres shy of 98% occupancy and happy to say 90%+ occupancy for over 12 months. At Maribyrnong our longest storing

T he original buildings at 151 Raleigh Road Maribyrnong, were home to the Maribyrnong Munitions and Explosives Factories during World War II. The relationship between Munitions factories and the Maribyrnong area is a long and significant one. It dates back to the mid 1870’s with the construc- tion of the Saltwater Gunpowder Magazine in 1874. Fourteen years later, in 1888, the Colonial Ammunition Company built the Colonial Ammuni- tion Factory in Footscray. This factory soon became a major supplier to the colonial forces. By the time World War II started, a number of factories had been built in Maribyrnong and Footscray. These included the Cordite Factory, built in 1918, and the addition of High Explosives and Filling departments to the Explosives Factory in Maribyrnong in 1918-20. The property was purpose built as Millers Self Storage back in 2001, prior to KSS taking over in late 2004.

Enterprise Spaces and the conversion of the level three open car, boat,

and caravan spaces, to lock up units. Located on the ground level you can find the purpose-built Gun Storage room and then two levels of storage units consisting of both indoor drive-up units and aisle units. We also have a drive-up mezzanine level which is located in a quiet area behind the street level units and our office. Maribyrnong is the only centre within Victoria which does not have lift/hoist access to the upper levels. However, we can boast that all levels are drive up which is not only convenient but very appealing when talking about unit location to our customers. Located around the corner from one of the largest shopping complexes in Victoria, Highpoint Shopping Centre, and with Raleigh Road a main thoroughfare for traffic, KSS has great drive by exposure with no chance of the public missing our centre. Something which is unique to our centre and our customers love, is our buggy. We use this for onsite tours of our centre. Many customers sit

We have two competitors close by and it can sometimes be

challenging. However, we find that a lot of customers come to KSS as they receive the service they are looking for and we go above and beyond to make their experience awesome.

After the purchase in 2004, Some of the fit outs completed by KSS included

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