Once filled with the sounds of heavy machinery, cranes and conveyors, the building now remains quiet for most of the day, the silence broken only by the occasional movement of an elevator or the opening of a roll-up metal, garage door.<\/p>\n
Now home to StorageMart, the building located at 1720 Grand Blvd. in Kansas City<\/a>, Missouri was once owned by the Kansas City Star newspaper.\u00a0 Now dedicated to 46,321 square feet of self storage space divided among 532 separate storage units or varying sizes, the building was used for storage by the newspaper as well.\u00a0 Huge rolls of newsprint, weighing hundreds of pounds apiece, were kept in the building at 1720 Grand, waiting for the moment they would be moved via cranes, rail systems and tunnels to one of two neighboring buildings to be fed into the giant printing presses.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The re-purposing of the building known as the Kansas City Star<\/a> Annex into self storage space is just one of many similar projects StorageMart has been involved with as their company has grown and expanded across the United States and Canada.<\/p>\nNewspaper Office Turned Storage Facility<\/h2>\n