eKourier April 2018

PROPERTY Spotlight on Petersham

K ennards Self Storage Petersham is located on 606 Parramatta Rd Petersham, entrance from Palace Street Petersham.

I, Dennis Flack (pictured above) have been the Centre Manager at Petersham for two and a half years while the expansion was being completed. What a challenge that has been. I also had Shavarne Scanlan with me for around 20 months and the help and knowledge from Shavarne made my job so much easier while the expansion was going on. Maharjan (Maya) (pictured above) has been my new Assistant Manager for around five months and has successfully helped get the centre up and running once completed. We have a few customers that come and say “Hi” when onsite and always make comment about the cleanliness of the centre. We have a company storing with us called Waterlilly, they have stored with us for more than 17 years. We are finding the biggest challenge is the location of our entrance to the building. Customers are always calling us asking where the entrance is.

expansion of 2,643 square metres; we now boast 742 units on site. Currently we have 407 rented units sitting at 55.06% occupancy. We now have nine units with drive up access from a single car garage size up to 69 square metre units, all with lighting inside. We also have eight lockers on the driveway and a great range of ground floor units, ranging from half garage to full garage sizes. Our merchandise is about $4,500 per month and growing and we are getting around 50 to 70 enquires a month. Last month we had 67 inquiries and out of that we had 48 move ins and hope to improve on that in the future. The centre has now become 24 hour access seven days a week with amazing security features and alarmed units in the new building, all with PIN code entry and exit.

We are known as the tall orange building on Parramatta Road, top of Taverners Hill, that has amazing 360 degree views of Sydney from the roof top. The building is five Storeys high and can be seen from most points in Sydney. We are located next to Cass Brother’s Kitchen and Bathroom Supplies. We are also a five minute walk to Norton St, Leichhardt with great coffee shops and places to eat. The centre was open back in 1984 as Millers storage. Prior to Miller’s storage it was recognised as Miller’s Brewery which had been purchased from Toohey’s brewery in 1967. Kennards Self Storage Petersham now has 5,986 square metres whereas back in 2004 we only had 3,343 square metres. We have just completed a new

Dennis Flack Centre Manager Kennards Self Storage Petersham

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Kennards Kourier April 2018