"The city has huge barriers to entry for a storage facility, so this project can be considered a big success by anyone's standards," Simanek tells GlobeSt.com. Thousand Oaks has turned down two other proposed storage projects in the past 24 months, in part because the storage use generates no sales tax and generally employs only a couple of workers.

Designed by architect Neal Scribner of Thousand Oaks, the new storage facility will be developed at 100 N. Skyline Dr. on a one-acre site that is vacant land. Simanek says that BTE's plan is to hold and operate the project when it is completed.

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