The Hottest Industry Right Now Is Storing All Your Stuff

Thanks to you and all those online purchases, investors see the self-storage industry as a sure-bet. 

Public Storage facility in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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A day hardly passes without the U.S. retail industry sustaining fresh wounds as malls and outlets shut their doors. Americans are still shopping, though—online, in their pajamas—and physics dictates that their new stuff, and old stuff, go somewhere.

Welcome to the renaissance of self-storage.