HAMMOND,
Ind., June 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- For more than
40 years, U-Haul® has been serving do-it-yourself movers
in Hammond at 822 165th St. Today,
U-Haul is announcing plans for a new facility to accompany its
longtime center to meet the growing needs of the community.
U-Box Moving & Storage of Hammond at 6303 Calumet Ave. is scheduled for
completion by summer 2026. It will be just one-third of a mile from
the existing store. The 2.7-acre property was acquired on
May 26.
Once the new facility is ready, it will serve as the parent
store to U-Haul Moving & Storage of Hammond, which will remain open and be
operated remotely.
Plans call for a three-story building with an expansive, modern
retail showroom and 676 indoor climate-controlled
self-storage units with high-tech security features at
affordable price points. Customers will also have access to truck
and trailer sharing, U-Box® portable storage
containers, towing equipment and professional hitch installation,
propane, boxes and moving supplies, and more.
Download the U-Haul app or contact Reservations at
1-800-GO-UHAUL.
"We are excited to develop land that has long sat empty and add
to our current services available in Hammond," stated Raymon Powell, U-Haul Company of South Cook
County & Northern Indiana
president. "The new center will provide expanded options at a
convenient location, including more climate-controlled storage to
better serve the community's needs."
The center is near retail and residential areas with close
proximity to Purdue University's
Northwest Hammond campus.
Powell plans to hire additional Team Members to staff the new
store when it is ready. U-Haul will look to hire locally to promote
job growth in the Hammond
community. U-Haul, honored as a Best for Vets employer by The
Military Times, actively recruits veterans and gives them
preference in the hiring process. Find U-Haul careers
at uhauljobs.com.
U-Haul continues to benefit the environment through its
shared-use business model. Truck and trailer sharing enables
communities to share moving equipment so that families and
individuals don't need to own large-capacity vehicles to transfer
belongings. Sustainability initiatives like U-Haul Adaptive Reuse
(the preserving and repurposing of existing buildings for new
stores), truck modifications to improve fuel economy, and plastic
Ready-To-Go Boxes® that are shared hundreds of
times before being recycled are among the many ways U-Haul
promotes green business. U-Box Load Share, the Company's latest
sustainability program, was just named the 2023 Best in Biz gold
winner for the Most Environmentally Friendly Service of the
Year.
About U-HAUL
Founded in 1945, U-Haul is the No. 1 choice of
do-it-yourself movers with more than 23,000 rental locations across
all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. The U-Haul app makes it
easy for customers to use U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 to access trucks
anytime through the self-dispatch and -return options on their
smartphones with our patented Live Verify technology. Our
customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to
188,700 trucks, 139,400 trailers and 43,700 towing devices. U-Haul
is the third largest self-storage operator in North America with 1,004,000 rentable units
and 86.8 million square feet of self-storage space at Company-owned
and -managed facilities. U-Haul is the top retailer of propane in
the U.S. and the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in
the automotive aftermarket industry. Get the U-Haul app from
the App
Store or Google Play.
Contact:
Yasmine Esparza
Jeff Lockridge
E-mail: publicrelations@uhaul.com
Phone: 602-263-6194
Website: uhaul.com
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