Torrance, CA based America’s Best Self Storage recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. Jack Donner, the company’s owner, accepted a Certificate of Recognition from the Torrance Area Chamber of Commerce, presented by Mayor Frank Scotto.
“We’re excited to be a part of the great city of Torrance. We’ve enjoyed working with the city and creating many friendships with our neighbors and customers throughout the city”, said Donner.
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Mayor Bob Coble said having space where emerging bands can practice is important to the city’s efforts to attract young professionals to Columbia, South Carolina — and keep them here.
“This isn’t a nuisance,” Coble said. “This is an asset.”
Coble promised to head up efforts to find “available space that’s appropriate” for the noisy practice sessions.
The mayor was responding to news of a Richland County fire marshal’s ruling that bands can no longer practice at Sumter Street Storage, near the university.
Since “the sheds” opened in 1986, up-and-coming bands, including hometown heroes Hootie and the Blowfish, have rented space there.
But complaints by a neighbor in Shandon prompted the inspection that’s closing rows of metal buildings to musicians at the end of the month.
A new, 48,000-square-foot Grand Slam Storage facility on in Mobile, Alabama, should reduce the heating bill for developers by half, and cut their air conditioning charges by 30 percent.
The second building at Grand Slam was built with insulated concrete forms to make it airtight and energy efficient, said builder Mike Daniels of B.C. Daniels. This is probably the first climate-controlled facility built with ICF in the country, he said.
They may be separated, but former Palm Beach health care magnate Abe Gosman said was disappointed that he didn’t get to eat Thanksgiving dinner with his wife.
Linda Gosman has been in jail since Nov. 6, when federal prosecutors accused the ex-Palm Beach socialite of hiding assets to evade a $66 million judgment.
Once worth $500 million, Abe Gosman filed for Chapter 11 protection in 2001. Although the bankruptcy was discharged last year, the court determined he had transferred assets to his wife. She was then hit with a $66 million judgment.
A 16-count indictment says Linda Gosman denied in a June 2005 deposition in bankruptcy court that she had any furniture, artwork or jewelry that had not been turned over to the bankruptcy court trustee. But the court authorized the trustee and U.S. marshals to break into one of her storage units, which contained valuable furniture and artwork.
And at a hotel where she lived, a safe contained a triple-strand Tahitian pearl necklace with a diamond-encrusted clasp and diamond earrings.
Storage sheds where up-and-coming bands have practiced for the past 20 years can no longer be used for live music, the Richland County fire marshal has ruled.
Last week, the owner of Sumter Street Storage, near USC, notified 26 tenants that the music must stop Nov. 30.
“This is just wrong,” said owner Richard Simoneau, who nevertheless doesn’t plan to fight the ruling.
Simoneau and his partner have been renting the out-of-the-way storage sheds to bands since opening in 1986.
Hometown legends Hootie and the Blowfish practiced their early hits there. So did the Root Doctors.
