Partners affiliated with Florida-based self-storage construction company Rapid Building Solutions LLC bought the closed Kmart store along Beach Boulevard to introduce a drive-thru experience.
Wayne Brodrick, vice president of sales and operations for Rapid Building Solutions, said Feb. 7 his group estimates a $7 million investment in the purchase and renovation of the property at 5751 Beach Blvd.
He expects it will open in July or August, according to WJCT News partner the Jacksonville Daily Record.
“This building is going to look first-class,” he said.
Brodrick said the building will be renovated into a drive-thru self-storage facility with no external access.
Customers will enter the building through a remote-access high-speed commercial rollup door, drive to the unit and drive out when completed. The building will be climate-controlled.
“You are out of the elements of wind, rain, humidity and heat,” Brodrick said.
There will be a main drive-thru and internal hallways.
Brodrick said the 800 units in the one-story, 100,000-square-foot building will range from 5-by-5 lockers to 15-by-30 drive-up units.
An expanded version of this story is at JaxDailyRecord.com.
