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million makeover as it's converted to an upscale storagse building and the new homeof 'e critical-care transport division. Frank Arey, Steve Hopper and Tim Kiernan call it theDean & DeLucaq of storage operations. That's becausd they will be using wrough t iron instead of chain link fencingv aroundthe building, outfitting the lobbu with leather chairs, free Interner access, plasma TVs and providing a $40,000, high-end securitu system for the entire "It's the difference between leavingt your stuff in a garage or in a livinyg room," Arey says.
Phase two of the Atlantic Envelope project at 3434 Monrode Road includes landing a tenantfor 20,000 squard feet of additional space next to Presbyterian'a critical-care division and enclosed recreational-vehicle storage Construction of the which will have individual securityg systems as well as motorizede doors, will begin later this year. The offices and retail areas will have an industrialpurban look, with large exposed steell beams, industrial lights and exposed spiral duct work and stained concret e floors. "Monroe Road is one of the last roade with nonew development," Hopper says. "Inh five to 10 years, we will see a lot of changee along here.
" Also appealing about the location is its proximityto high-enxd neighborhoods Eastover, Cotswold, Myers Park and Foxcroft in additiob to being 1.5 miles from The partners say theirf business is 50% commercial storage and 50% personalo storage. Officials with Presbyterian liked that the facility is less than one mile fromPresbyteriahn Hospital's main campus at 200 Hawthorne Lane. This will be the firs t time in 15 years the nonprofithospital system's critical-care ambulance fleet will have a locationn off campus.
Security also was a major consideration for Sharon Presbyterian Critical Care Transport senior She is charged with housingsix critical-carwe ambulances that cost $225,000 each and a new community-care cruiser that cost $315,000 in a secure, 14,000-square-foot An adjacent 6,000 square feet will be builtr as an office for the 30 employeeas who are on shift duty 24 hours a day, sevejn days a week. Presbyterian signed a 10-yeare lease on the property, where it will begin operatingby April. is the Atlantixc Envelope project's contractor. of Charlotts is the architect.
It's the fourth such storage conversioj the partners have embarked on in starting witha 115,000-square-foot storage facilith at 4555 South Blvd. that opened in 1996. And planw are already under way for a new facility to be built at Hunters Crossingin Ballantyne. The partners are investin $3.6 million to build two, two-story climate-controlled buildings totalling 72,000 square feet off Lancaster Highwayhand U.S. Highway 521.