MyPlace Nuremberg expected customers rising rents, the housing is scarce 2 500th and even more storage space. More Nuremberg store their belongings and goods therefore except House: the MyPlace self storage provider recorded since the opening of the first Nuremberg site over five years ago growing customer numbers. At the end of the current fiscal year, MyPlace now expects customers in its two branches in Schweinau and Schopper Court the 2 500th. And an end of the growth is not in sight. With the tense situation of housing in German cities alone, the success of Selfstorage offers can however not sufficiently explain. Not least because of growing economic success and the social importance of the self storage industry, science is now increasingly deals with questions relevant to the industry. The cultural scientist Petra Beck could many other reasons for the trend to external basement in her graduate thesis at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin”make out and also It shed, who stores what items in self storage compartments and why.
After decades without wars in our countryside, most people have so many things like never before in the history of”proves Petra Beck in her master’s thesis Restopia Selfstorage urban practice” firmly and thus describes one of the most important prerequisites for the lack of storage space in the apartments of German cities. Particular importance for the growing needs of Selfstorage offers also has the increasing mobility of the population in all areas of life. These include among other things common residential and workplace change. Some customers need their compartment, because they leave the city for a limited time for professional reasons, others move in with their partner and suddenly have the half set up twice,”Andreas Eichinger at MyPlace self declared responsible for the Nuremberg locations. The customers range from the businesswoman of the heir to the collector. And so different objects and stories that often tell great breaks in life hide behind the blue doors of the compartments. The storage facilities are used not only for private use, about one-third of MyPlace Selfstorage customers are professionals.