Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- U-Store-It Trust may be moving headquarters to Pennsylvania
- Attorney General Reaches Settlement with Jacksonville Moving Company
- Landfills turn rotting garbage into energy
- Berryville readies for move to new offices

U-Store-It Trust may be moving headquarters to Pennsylvania
The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com OH 
The self-storage company’s executive offices in Suite 2800 of the Terminal Tower downtown are listed as available for lease on the Web site for brokerage firm CB Richard Ellis. A few years ago the self-storage business employed hundreds of people at a corporate headquarters in Middleburg Heights. U-Store-It moved to the Terminal Tower in mid-2007. Now fewer than 25 employees work in roughly 8600 square feet on the tower’s 28th floor. Most office employees work in Baltimore and in Wayne a city in Northeast Pennsylvania near the New York border.
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Attorney General Reaches Settlement with Jacksonville Moving Company
North Florida NewsDaily FL 
The settlement with Father & Son Moving and Storage of Jacksonville Inc. resolves allegations the company used misleading advertising failed to deliver furniture and other possessions at the prices promised and failed to disclose certain items on its contracts. Under the settlement the company must reform its business practices including its marketing tactics and the composition of its contracts. The investigation revealed through dozens of consumers’ complaints with the Attorney General’s office and the Better Business Bureau that the final prices charged at the end of customers’ moves were greater than the original estimates. Consumers were also told they had waived their rights to file claims for losses or damages after signing the "Delivery Acknowledgment" on the Bill of Lading a standard industry form used by all movers.

Landfills turn rotting garbage into energy
The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com OH 
Waste Management is looking to generate electricity at two additional Ohio sites in the future. Waynesburg landfill supplies DominionCurrently its largest Ohio project is the American Landfill in Waynesburg which has about 15 million tons of waste already buried and 3000 tons to 4000 tons of new trash arriving daily from all over Northeast Ohio. The 234-acre landfill ships 4 million cubic feet of gas every day to Dominion East Ohio Gas Co. ’s underground storage reservoirs about nine miles away. That’s enough gas to heat 6500 Midwestern homes said Todd Brady Waste Management’s Ohio gas operations manager. He said the company began cleaning the gas in 2003 rather than burning it. “We have 155 wells which we tune on a pretty consistent basis” he said.

Berryville readies for move to new offices
The Winchester Star VA 
The town is moving in with a temporary certificate of occupancy permit granted Dec. 3 and the town offices will be closed Monday and Tuesday so town staff can unpack in their new location. The offices remained open Thursday while the Berryville-based moving company Lloyd’s Transfer & Storage started moving out the boxes piled in the Town Council Chambers at 15 E. County officials have not set a date for their move into the county wing of the government center and are waiting for the final certificate of occupancy said Lora Walburn deputy clerk for the Clarke County Board of Supervisors. “We don’t have substantial completion yet” she said. “That building I understand was done in segments.