Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. – STORE Self Storage and Wine Storage was recently honored as “Small Business of the Year” during the annual Northern Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce Leadership Awards Dinner. Widely recognized as northern Palm Beach County’s premier business event, over 200 people gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of local enterprises and successful members of our community.

STORE was selected for being more than just a self-storage and wine storage facility. When you enter the lobby it feels like walking into a posh hotel, complete with boutique concierge service, the smell of fresh-baked cookies, and lavish interiors.
The 155,000-square-foot, climate-controlled building, is Palm Beach Gardens’ only Category 4, hurricane-rated storage facility. It features 19 different sizes that are competitively priced and suitable for commercial as well as residential clients.

The elegant wine vault offers the latest in security technology, including biometric fingerprint access, surveillance monitoring, an exclusive management system with touch screens, a bar code scanner to help maintain accurate personal inventories, and individual door alarms on each wine locker.

The venue is also available for special events, wine tastings, and meetings. As the premier networking hub of the area, STORE sponsors and hosts many educational, networking, and customized social events. The Wine Concierge and friendly staff are available to help coordinate any affair − from intimate occasions to lavish red carpet charity bashes with up to 800 guests.

“We do all we can to accommodate our clients. It is a pleasure for our staff to assist with all storage and event needs,” said STORE owner, Jon Channing. “We pride ourselves on running a facility where businesses and people of the community can come together. It’s an honor for us to be recognized here by our peers.”

ArtiGras kick-off Unveils 2012 Poster

The Northern Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce unveiled the 2012 ArtiGras Commemorative poster last night during "Red, White & Zin" at STORE Wine Storage in Palm Beach Gardens. The unveiling was the highlight of the ArtiGras kick-off party which featured a selection of wine, as well as food from Don Ramon's, Water Bar & Grill, Spoto's Oyster Bar, Rooney's Public House, Sushi Jo and Bonefish Grill. The evening also included live jazz music and a silent auction to benefit local school art programs.

Jon Channing, owner of STORE Self Storage; Ellen Negley, Artist; Mike Cowling, CEO of Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center and Chamber President, Ed Chase

Photo credit: David R. Randell Photographics

About ArtiGras
The 27th annual ArtiGras Fine Arts Festival will showcase a juried exhibition of outstanding fine art and feature activities which include live entertainment, artist demonstrations, interactive art activities for all ages, a youth art competition and the opportunity to meet more than 250 of the top artists from around the world. Listed as one of the top 50 festivals in the country, ArtiGras 2012 expects more than 125,000 patrons over the three-day period. Visit www.artigras.org for more information, or to purchase tickets.

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Green Market/Open Market Stays through September!!!

Due to the overwhelming success of the new summer Green Market/Open Market, STORE Self Storage and Wine Storage, in Palm Beach Gardens will continue to run the event through September. Be sure to include a visit to the market, any Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. from now until September 24.

The market opened on July 9 with 30 vendors and has now grown to 46 vendors offering a wide array of products and produce. The crowd of shoppers has increased each week, stocking up on fresh produce, seafood, bread, pastries, fruits and more for the week. Many come to just experience the market festivities, while enjoying their morning coffee and a warm, fresh baked pastry or vegan cupcake.

The Green/Open Market is located on-site under permanent cover at STORE Self Storage, at the N.E. corner of PGA Blvd and Military Trail. The market will be open every Saturday in July, August and September to the delight of residents and visitors alike.

Now with more than 46 vendors participating under the cool open permanent breezeway at STORE, its bigger and better than ever! Fresh, organic produce and fruit is being flown in by several local small business distributors. For your palate, there will be merchants offering fresh baked breads and pastries, cupcakes, BBQ on the grill, beef jerky, smoothies, chips and dips, organics, gourmet pickles, olive oils, fresh paella, and more. There will also be handcrafted jewelry, art, recycled frames, hand-crocheted products, children’s fashions, women’s accessories, books, and silk tropical flowers. New to the market are ornamental orchids and popular south Florida plants and trees for sale.

There’s a lot to see, sample, and purchase on Saturdays the entire summer, while you support our local merchants. For more information, call at 561-627-8444 or visit www.storeselfstorage.com.

STORE Self Storage/Wine Storage is located at 11010 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410.

About - STORE Self Storage/Wine Storage:
Store Self Storage/Wine Storage brings you unparalleled amenities with great customer service in Palm Beach Gardens. Our 5-story building is designed to protect your stored items even in a "Cat 4" hurricane. Need more room to store your files or excess inventory; we can accommodate our commercial client's needs. Our residential customers love the variety of sizes and amenities offered for the whole house of furniture or just a few prized possessions. At Store Wine Storage even the most sophisticated wine connoisseur will be pleased with the careful attention to detail in our wine cellars. With 10 different sizes, we have the size to fit your needs and to allow your collection to grow. Our staff is always ready to assist you with wine storage, private tasting events, and more. STORE Self Storage/Wine Storage facilities are centrally located in the heart of Palm Beach Gardens on Military Trail and PGA Blvd. Our close proximity to I-95 and the Florida Turnpike makes it easy to get to from anywhere in the South Florida area, just minutes from Jupiter, West Palm Beach, North Palm Beach, Abacoa and Juno Beach.

Enid Atwater, Venue Marketing Group – Media Contact: 561-762-2141

Wait ’til you see what’s in “STORE” for you now!

PALM BEACH GARDENS — Can a business take on multiple personalities? This one can. With a name like STORE Self Storage & Wine Storage, there are functions this establishment performs that you may not be aware of based on its name. From the outside, the building itself looks more like it could be a nightclub. On the inside, it feels more like walking into a posh hotel than a storage facility, complete with boutique concierge service and lavish interiors, including stone floors and African mahogany walls. It was designed to withstand a Category 4 hurricane and is conveniently located just north of PGA Boulevard on Military Trail.

The easily accessible, entry-controlled, unique drive-thru building provides covered loading and unloading. A big convenience factor when storing your belongings – especially during the hot Florida summers.

The elegant wine vault offers the latest security technology, including biometric fingerprint access, unparalleled surveillance monitoring, an exclusive management system with touch screens and a barcode scanner to help maintain accurate personal inventories, and individual door alarms on each wine locker. It’s a new and automated way to store and track your collection. There are 17 different size units to choose from and optimal storage conditions are maintained by a refrigeration system at 55 degrees and 70 percent humidity. The climate-controlled environment has a backup generator even in a power outage.

More than just a storage facility, STORE is also available for special events, wine tastings, and meetings. The on-site wine tasting room is equipped with tailor-made furnishings, including leather chairs and a beautiful custom wood table, a surround-sound entertainment system, and a 52-inch monitor. The room also has wireless capabilities and can be used for business conferences or entertaining − up to 21 people. The Wine Concierge is available to help coordinate any event. 

If you need something larger, the venue holds up to 1,000 guests − thanks to the creative layout − and the friendly staff can assist you with everything from arranging catering, décor, and entertainment. From intimate networking events to lavish red carpet charity bashes, STORE has quickly become the place for hosting customized social events for any occasion.

STORE Self Storage & Wine Storage is located at 11010 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., 33410. For more information, please call 561-627-8444 or visit storeselfstorage.com.

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Successful Local Alliances

By David Dixon,
Vice President of Development,
Universal Management Company

Are there business benefits to being a good community citizen? YES. By supporting other local businesses, alliances are formed that create flexibility and camaraderie for planning events, utilizing services, and purchasing products.

STORE’s weekly Green Market is a prime example of how networking and strategic alliances can help your business. Every Saturday in July through September, STORE’s Green Market showcases local businesses and the products they sell. Florida summers leave residents lacking any sort of outdoor market for several months. By choosing to address the need of its community, STORE has helped support local vendors during the lean summer months, made new friends and alliances, and raised the profile of their unique facility.

For the last three years, once a month STORE hosts a morning business networking event, Networking in the Gardens, on the third Friday of each month, 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. Countless partnerships, business opportunities, and friendships have resulted from an hour and half one morning a month. Numerous local restaurants and specialty shops now cater to STORE events; realtors and apartment managers can assist their clients in finding storage options, and STORE even found its new website designer, Blue Wave Design, from it! For local businesses, word of mouth is really what it’s all about.

If you are a local supplier or business owner, we want to hear from you. STORE Self Storage is locally owned, locally operated, and right in your neighborhood. Stop by for a personal tour of this award-winning facility or contact the staff about joining this local group. They would love to have you.

info@storeselfstorage.com
Phone: 561-627-8444
Fax: 561-630-8449
www.storeselfstorage.com

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Anne Ballard - More than warm cookies

We want to know what is your favorite cookie flavor?

It’s More Than Warm Cookies And Custom Coffees. . .
By M. Anne Ballard, The Hat Lady

Store Self Storage and Wine Storage was a long time in planning and development to achieve the outstanding facility you see today. Every aspect of the customer experience was considered and discussed, revised and planned. We know in our industry how stressful moving, packing and storing can be on each of you and your families, or for your business inventory maintenance as well. Our goal, as you can see, is to make sure you know from the minute you enter Store that your comfort and trust are the most important elements to us.
We also know if you are comfortable, can make yourself at home, fix yourself a custom coffee or tea, grab a warm cookie or cold water bottle, and say hi to the managers and maybe even get out of the sun for a few minutes; things are a bit easier and not quite so stressful. When everything is kept clean and tidy and you can easily read and understand where to go and how to get there or how to use our many amenities you are more likely to trust us with your valuables and most importantly to us, your referrals of friends, families and coworkers. Making sure you could load and unload out of the sun, wind and rain was also an important feature for your continued comfort. We work to treat our customers like we do your fine wine in our wine cellars, making sure your comfort and trust are maintained and continually improved.
Fun facts about our warm cookies and great customers! Our number one cookie request is for the strawberry shortcake, with chocolate being the second most popular. Since opening we have served over 9,000 cookies (760 dozen) to our guests or roughly 300 per month. 97% of our customers chose us because of our many features, location and great management team. 47% of our business customers are retail or service businesses, and 42.1% of all customers were referred by a friend or business or one of our outstanding community events they have attended.
Come by anytime and say hi, grab your favorite cookie and beverage and let us know how we can help you today. Don’t know us yet? Come by and experience extraordinary storage and great service at Store, we’ll keep the cookies warm and fresh baked until you get here, and oh yes, bring a friend.

We want to know what is your favorite cookie flavor.

Chamber of the Palm Beaches After-Hours Event - November 3, 2010

STORE Self Storage and Wine Storage in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., hosted the Chamber of the Palm Beaches after-hours event Nov. 3. There were more than 60 people from the business community in attendance. Chamber members enjoyed glasses of wine as the management team gave tours of the facility’s wine room and lockers.


The event also kicked off the facility’s holiday toy drive to benefit the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys For Tots organization. In lieu of admission to the event, attendees brought a new toy for donation and were given raffle tickets for each toy donated.


STORE Self Storage and Wine Storage is a collection site for Toys For Tots and will also store all the toys collected until they’re distributed to the children in the Palm Beach Gardens area.

County appreciates support of homeless resource center by the Breakers, Goodwill and STORE Self Storage

When the county’s new Homeless Resource Center in West Palm Beach opens next year, furnishing it won’t be a problem, thanks to a unique public/private partnership with The Breakers, Gulfstream Goodwill Industries and Store Self Storage.


On July 8, Goodwill employees moved sofas, stuffed chairs, tables, and more than 200 pieces of beautiful artwork from the Breakers hotel into a 10-by-20-foot bay at Store Self Storage in Palm Beach Gardens where they will be kept free of charge until the new resource center is ready.


The Breakers donated the furnishings from a recent 69-room renovation. All the items were wrapped and moved by Goodwill personnel, and Store Self Storage offered the free storage space. Pieces not retained for the homeless center will be available for sale at area Goodwill stores and boutiques with the PBC Homeless Advisory Board receiving a share of the proceeds.

Texas Hold’em Event a Smashing Success for Cystic Fibrosis!!

Store Self Storage & Wine Storage - Fun Time for all at Texas Hold’em Saturday night.


Nine Winners received over $1,500 in prizes. Yard House donated food, TooJays donated black & white cookies, DJ Derek played appropriate Texas Country music, No Limit Poker set up poker tables, chips, dealers.

Cystic Fibrosis benefited over $1,500.

Spring Cleaning Made Easy

The sun is shining, the weather is gorgeous, which means one thing…spring is here! Spring is the time to de-clutter and organize your home for the great weather and preparation of next winter. Last year, clothes and objects were thrown from room to room and your house ended up just as full as before, only objects were in different places.

At STORE Self Storage, we can help your cleaning become quick, easy, and simple.

Here are a few steps to follow:
1) Design a plan - decide a day when you can get a few household members to go through personal rooms and then together in the communal rooms.

2) Attack one room at a time. Go through all the items in the room and remove those that can be stored, sold and/or donated. Organize all the remaining items in that room. Once you are done, do not add any items to the room. This process should de-clutter your home in a total of a day or two. Once the home is de-cluttered, it will make dusting, cleaning, and organizing a lot easier.

3) Your garage or a spare room is probably full of bags to be sold or donated. The easiest solution is to rent a storage unit for a short time. At STORE Self Storage, we will even bring our truck and driver to assist with moving your items. This will enable you to get rid of those bags and regain your house. In the storage unit separate the items that are to be sold and those that are going to be kept for next winter.

4) Now your home is de-cluttered and organized. Cleaning will be a breeze. In just two days, you’ve transformed your house from having lots of things to now having lots of space. Enjoy your spring and summer!

STORE Self Storage Featured in Wall Street Journal

Ballen Isles Wine Lovers Club

Ballen Isles Wine Lovers Club is holding their next event in STORE Wine Storage’s exclusive wine tasting room.


The wine tasting room is designed for wine lovers to be able to sip and enjoy their wine in comfort. The sitting style encourages interaction between all participants, whether it’s a presentation or an informal tasting.


BI Wine Lovers Club members will enjoy El Corazon d’Espana: Red Wines of the Ribera del Duero will be presented by Sommelier Jenny Benzie of “Pour, Sip, Savor”. The event will take place Thursday March 4th at 6:30pm. RSVP required. Light accompaniments will enhance the tasting experience.


For those who wish to dine afterwards, Oakwood Grill invites the BI Wine Lovers members to enjoy 20% off as well as no corkage fee for any bottle brought to dinner. Oakwood Grill is a “Live Fire” restaurant concept. Their food that is uncomplicated, familiar, with a bold flavor and presentation. This offer is exclusively for BI Wine Lovers members for dinner on March 4th only.

STORE Self Storage and Wine Storage is located on Military Trail just north of PGA Blvd in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. We were just voted the 2009 Facility of the Year. We specialize in climate controlled self storage. Our unique wine storage keeps your collection at the ideal temperature and humidity, includes access to our exclusive wine inventory system.

Wine, Dine and Design

Wine, Dine, and Design is the first annual cultural event of its kind in Palm Beach Gardens. It will take place March 20th 2010 from 3-8pm at STORE Self Storage & Wine Storage. The region’s most exclusive meet and greet will showcase a wonderful selection of art exhibits, interior design, musical entertainment, dance exhibition, food and wine.

In addition to the free events, a limited number of tickets will be available giving access to tastings from the vintners paired with restaurants for an irresistible tasting. Tickets are $25 advance and $30 at the door (if available). Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the Haiti Relief through American Red Cross. To purchase tickets in advance call 561-627-8444. RSVP by March 17th.

Winemakers will talk chemistry with you in a small classroom setting. Dazzle your friends with your new knowledge. The winemakers will also be on hand showcasing their wines. Proceeds from wine sales will benefit the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

STORE Self Storage & Wine Storage is located just north of PGA Blvd on Military Trail in Palm Beach Gardens. The award winning facility specializes in climate controlled storage and wine storage.

Networking in the Gardens

Networking in the Gardens continues to grow. Join us February 19th from 7:30am - 9:00am at STORE Self Storage & Wine Storage. We are an open group, open to business and professional associates that are interested in forming relationships and helping each build their business.


The guest speaker at this event is going to be Doug McGuirk. He is the head trainer for Robbins Research International and will be discussing ways to motivate your team and improve productivity by implementing new strategies.


Our meetings take place in the Conference Room/Wine Tasting Room at STORE Self Storage & Wine Storage. We meet for a light breakfast, a fun networking game, and our spotlight speaker. The entrance fee is only $5. STORE Self Storage & Wine Storage is located just north of PGA Blvd on Military Trail, next to the DoubleTree Hotel and CVS.

Wine Seminar and 4-Course Dinner

Want to find a new boutique wine to love? STORE Wine Storage and A1A Fine Wine & Spirits are hosting a spectacular wine seminar and dinner on Tuesday January 26th from 7pm - 8:30pm.


Some of the wines that we will be tasting are Fontodi Flaccianello, Kathryn Hall, Gaja Costa Russi, Beau Vigne, Caymus, Ethos, and more. As special treat, we will also be tasting Louis XIII.


SOHO Taverna will be providing the delicious food to accompany the wines.


There will be special pricing for those in attendance. Seating is very limited and RSVP is required. There is a $70 charge per person. To RSVP call Vanessa at 561-721-2220.

STORE Wine Club presents Let’s Uncork Together!

Exclusively for STORE Wine Storage tenants.


STORE Wine Storage cordially invites our wine tenants to uncork a couple of bottles to share with others tenants. This is a UYOB (Uncork Your Own Bottle) where each tenant will share a bottle or two with each other. The choice of what you share is up to you, whether it’s a big bold red or a crisp sweet white.


It’s a great opportunity to share your favorite wines, best finds and great experiences with others who share the same passion. Gordon Sullivan, luxury brand manager for Southern Wine & Spirits, will be on-hand to share his expertise and answer any questions. Light food will be provided by Zuccarelli’s.


Please RSVP to info@storeselfstorage.com or 561-627-8444

Toys for Tots Kick-off Event at STORE Self Storage
STORE Self Storage and Wine Storage hosted the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches after hours event on Wednesday night, November 3rd, with more than 60 in attendance. The members of the Chamber enjoyed a glass of wine, as the management team gave tours of the Wine Room and... more »

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November Yard Sale
Clean Out Your Closets. Clear Out Your Merchandise…and Make Money at The Largest “Air Conditioned” Community Yard Sale. Generously Hosted by Store Self Storage in Support of the Red Cross... more »

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Store Self Storage Release
Store Fine Storage to Open in Palm Beach Gardens will Revolutionize the Way We Store our Valuables. A whole new way to store your belongings is coming to Palm Beach Gardens… more »

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Grand Opening Release
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.-- A whole new way to store your belongings is here --- STORE Fine Storage/Wine Storage hosted their grand opening event in Palm Beach Gardens on Wednesday… more »