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July 30, 2025

U-Haul pockets its MUP for Ballard self-storage project

By BRIAN MILLER
Real Estate Editor

Rendering by MDG Architects [enlarge]
With no demo permit for its existing small building, U-Haul doesn’t appear to be in a hurry.

Seattle, like other cities, has been discouraging new self-storage projects in recent years. On the suburban periphery, fine, but cities want more active job creation in core industrial areas — not a big stack of storage lockers overseen by a single security guard. For that reason, there was a big push to begin the permit process for several such projects from Seattle up to Shoreline.


 
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