Life Storage
Life Storage Headquarters Location
Buffalo, NY
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Life Storage, Inc. is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires and manages self-storage properties throughout the United States. Headquartered in Buffalo, New York, the company employs over 2,000 people and operates approximately 1100 self-storage facilities encompassing over 80 million square feet in 35 states.
Life Storage, Inc. currently operates under the brand name Life Storage®, and is one of the largest self-storage companies in the world. Prior to 2017, the company operated under the brand Uncle Bob’s Self Storage®.
Founded in 1982, the company was originally a financial planning firm but opened its first self-storage facility in Florida in 1985. Within three years, it owned approximately 30 facilities along the East Coast and accumulated 62 facilities over the next decade. Life Storage was originally known as Sovran Self Storage, Inc., operating under the brand name Uncle Bob’s Self Storage beginning in the late 1980s.
Life Storage went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1995, trading under the name Sovran Self Storage. Within a year, it grew its holding to 111 self-storage facilities along the East Coast and Texas. Life Storage doubled to 222 facilities by 1999 and by 2003 operated in 21 states.
Life Storage continued its acquisitions throughout the United States, expanding into cities such as Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and St. Louis. It operated 478 facilities by the end of 2013 and 500 facilities by the end of 2014. It made its way to the West Coast in 2016, acquiring California-based LifeStorage LP.
The company rebranded from Sovran Self Storage, Inc. to Life Storage in 2016 and now trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LSI (formerly NYSE:SSS).
In 2017, the company rebranded its facilities to Life Storage – a name that more closely depicts the Company’s customer-centric focus, progressive growth, and innovative technologies.
With indoor and drive-up self storage facilities located across the United States, Life Storage helps simplify storage solutions for both home and business. We're not your average storage facility; we provide storage units that are clean, convenient, climate controlled, secure and affordable. Our employees treat every customer (both external and internal) with respect while providing the best customer service in the industry. We're not just self storage, we're Life Storage. Mission: Provide clean, safe and innovative storage solutions for our customers, and to simply be the best storage company in the world.
The Life Storage culture is part of what makes working with us so great! It’s something that we take a lot of pride in, it’s been cultivated since our company was founded, and continues to evolve as we do.
Core Values
By joining the Life Storage team, you will be part of a team that spans across the country, with everyone working together toward a common goal, no matter how many miles separate us.
At Life Storage, we believe that the best teams always treat each other and our customers with kindness and respect.
At Life Storage, we have established Core Values, which our employees lives exhibit each and every day:
- Teamwork & Inclusion
- Respect
- Accountability
- Integrity
- Innovation
Community Engagement
With such a vast number of locations across North America, Life Storage’s integration with and support of our communities is extremely important. Our leaders have made the deliberate decision to fund and participate in charitable events that focus on humanitarian essentials such as hunger, housing, and disaster relief.
For us, this is special because our employees come from and reside in our communities. With the support of a formal Community Engagement Program designed to maximize our positive impact, we proudly give back to the communities that have been an integral part of our success.
Life Storage is growing and looking for people who value the things we do: innovation, providing excellent service and a healthy work-life balance!
Rewarding and innovative work
By joining the Life Storage team, you’ll be encouraged to reach your true potential and to help us reach ours! We’re focused on continually advancing our systems with the latest technology and by working with our team members to develop innovative solutions to improve our processes.
Service is our specialty
As a Life Storage employee, you’ll be part of the best team in the business – our employees have won national and regional awards for the service they provide! You can help us to continue to achieve that success by providing our customers with the Life Storage experience.
Build your career
We want you to grow with us and have several different programs in place that allow you to do just that! There are also multiple paths your career can take, so whether you are interested in multi-store management, leading your own team, or enhancing and developing your skills, we’re here to help you with your journey!
We have been honored by our employees with their votes, and have been selected as one of Forbes Best Midsize Employers among over 10,000 U.S. midsize companies. We make every effort to make our workplace rewarding, inclusive and challenging for over 2,000 employees. We are quite proud of their recognition and appreciate our team's hard work and dedication to Life Storage.
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