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\nTwo $3 million residential homes are part of the new development at 2270 Harbour Rd. Jacob McNeil\/Platinum Creative <\/p>\n
Harbour Haven Self Storage is a first-class facility for boaters, part of a bold new development in Van Isle Marina<\/p>\n
On an Island surrounded by boats, splitting a life between\u00a0being on\u00a0water and being on land is less seamless than one might think.\u00a0Plenty lug their belongings to and from the shores\u00a0\u2013 and the marina is often disconnected from residential land.<\/p>\n
But developer\u00a0Scott Davies of\u00a0Cube Project Management Ltd.\u00a0saw an opportunity to make boaters’ lives easier, part of\u00a0a visionary project he began a few years earlier to restore\u00a0Sidney’s Van Isle Marina area at\u00a02270 Harbour Rd.<\/p>\n
For Greater Victoria, it was surprisingly a novel idea, not yet implemented: premium self-storage just steps from the marina.<\/p>\n
“We had a feasibility study done on the business prior to getting into it, and we learned from that that nobody actually offers self-storage with a marine twist. It’s mainly just self-storage.<\/p>\n
“It’s such a no-brainer idea. It’s unique. It’s a first-class facility.”<\/p>\n
Harbour Haven Self Storage offers 200 climate-controlled lockers and over 10,000 square feet of storage, with video surveillance, an alarm system and most importantly, a convenient location.<\/p>\n
Peninsula News Review confirmed that there are no storage facilities like it in Greater Victoria accessible via a marina.<\/p>\n
In the Sidney area, Davies estimates there are at least eight marinas, translating to plenty of potential customers. Now, boaters\u00a0have a centrally located spot for their marine gear, sleeping bags, paddle boards, fishing rods, and other gear they don’t necessarily want to store on their boats.<\/p>\n
Once they have a\u00a0locker, all they need to do is pull up and unload.<\/p>\n
So far, everyone Davies has spoken to “seems to love it,” he said. That\u00a0goes in tandem with the rest of the development, which includes new residences and four commercial units in what was a\u00a0“derelict” area after the Blue Peter Pub burned down in 2011.<\/p>\n
“They’ve come up and said how happy they are to see a nice new development in the area. And just from a little bit of signage, we’ve got a slew of people on the sign-up sheet, and we’ve just welcomed the first few guests. We’re welcoming lots more as we speak.<\/p>\n
\nTwo $3 million residential homes are part of the new development at 2270 Harbour Rd. Jacob McNeil\/Platinum Creative
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A lot of thought was put into the development and the storage facility. Davies travelled far and wide to do market research.\u00a0“We went to self-storage conventions in Las Vegas, Toronto, and Vancouver,” he said. There, his team learned that the two most popular storage locker sizes are 5’x5′\u00a0and 5’x10′\u00a0with a 9-foot ceiling. The majority of Harbour Haven lockers\u00a0are those sizes, though they range from\u00a05’x5′\u00a0($150\/a month) to 10’x9′\u00a0($516\/a month).\u00a0<\/p>\n