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KENNARDS NEW FACILITY Kennards opened a new facility in July, situated on 332 Leakes Road Truganina in the western suburbs of Melbourne. It was purpose-built by Regis Constructions. Stage one consists of two separate buildings of two levels each with approx. 7,200 sqm and 496 storage spaces. Kennards Storage purchased the adjoining vacant land which will allow the site to double in size and the final development will have 13,000sqm and 760 storage spaces. The facility has 24/7 access with a driveway, ground floor and first floor spaces and 1sqm lockers up to 30sqm warehouses. There are individual pin code security access gates, with individually alarmed units with back to base monitoring and CCTV surveillance throughout the centre with 8 cameras.
Dallas Dogger, Chairman of the Centreforce Technology Group representing SiteLink in Australia, New Zealand and Asia said, “The award for Storable underpins the continuing commitment to software excellence and innovation by Storable. Having customers and peers judge your product to be the best is humbling and testament to the hard work of all of our sales, support and development staff both here in Brisbane, Australia, Raleigh, North Carolina and Austin, Texas USA.
STORABLE WINS AWARD AGAIN! Inside Self Storage, the self storage industry’s most widely read magazine and online directory has announced the winners of the ‘Best of Business’ awards for 2020. The votes are solicited from users and industry professionals globally, voting in 40 categories. Voting took place in March with the announcement of winners last week. Storable, who own SiteLink Web Edition, used by the leading self storage operators across Australia, New Zealand and Asia, were awarded ‘Best Management software’ an award SiteLink has won for nearly 10 years. SiteLink remains the most awarded self storage software globally. Storable were also awarded ‘Best Online directory’ for their Sparefoot product.
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SiteLink remains the clear choice for progressive self storage operators large and small. Our commitment to security, data accuracy and even more development of contactless move ins continues, with our users reporting a massive uptake of online move ins”. “The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the focus on move ins to a contactless model and we led the world with the first truly online move in over 8 years ago. Since then, many thousands of ‘Online contactless’ move ins have been completed, many at full price, many after hours and many on weekends. SiteLink and RapidStor, our online move in tool are responsible for over 30% of all move ins and has been an essential tool through these tough times for the majority of our customers. There is no doubt that ‘contactless move ins’ are part of the self storage daily playbook and we will continue to innovate, with more features and the best service.”
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