Moving in Maui: U-Haul Opens First Store on the Valley Isle

Extensive renovations will soon render more than 1,000 indoor climate-controlled self-storage units with high-tech security features and U-Haul Remote 24/7® access. Professional hitch installation, propane and boat storage will also be available at the 107,520-square-foot building situated on 7.3 acres.

U-Haul acquired the property on Oct. 17.

"I'm excited that we finally have a U-Haul-owned location on Maui," said Kaleo Alau, U-Haul Company of Hawaii president. "The Kahului community is bursting at the seams. Residents are having a hard time finding available self-storage for their belongings. This state-of-the-art store will satisfy that demand."

Contact U-Haul Moving & Storage Kahului at (808) 249-8041 or stop by to see the progress being made. Hours of operation are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Reserve equipment at uhaul.com or contact Reservations at 1-800-GO-UHAUL.

The recent acquisition of the Kahului facility was driven by U-Haul Company's Corporate Sustainability initiatives: U-Haul supports infill developments to help local communities lower their carbon footprint. Our adaptive reuse of existing buildings reduces the amount of energy and resources required for new-construction materials and helps cities reduce their unwanted inventory of unused buildings.

By repurposing the former Kmart, U-Haul prevented the use of 360 tons of metal manufacturing and transportation (the same amount of steel used to make 363 passenger cars); avoided 5,730 tons of new concrete pours (enough to create 116 miles of concrete blocks); kept 6,237 tons of construction and demolition debris out of landfills (avoiding 240 dump trucks traveling 5,038 miles in total); and stopped 3,759,443 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere (the same carbon emissions of 288 large SUVs or pickup trucks for one year).

"This is a very large property and people were worried it would become an eyesore," Alau said. "It has served as the meeting place for many community-related benefits, including the farmer's market and car washes. We hope to continue that tradition. We want our store to be the glue that holds this community together."

U-Haul will look to hire locally as services expand at this facility to support job growth within the Kahului community. When the store is fully operational, Alau plans to employ more than 10 Team Members. Learn more about U-Haul career opportunities at jobs.uhaul.com.

The arrival of U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 is modernizing the moving industry by offering self-service and live verify technology to enhance customer and community safety. This technology allows for the self-pick-up and self-return of U-Haul trucks to be done entirely by smartphone at any hour – day or night. Membership is free once customers create an account on uhaul.com.

About U-Haul

Since 1945, U-Haul has been the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers, with a network of more than 21,000 locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 now offers customers access to U-Haul trucks every hour of every day through the self-service options on their internet-connected mobile devices. U-Haul customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to more than 150,000 trucks, 112,000 trailers and 40,000 towing devices. U-Haul offers more than 581,000 rooms and more than 51 million square feet of self-storage space at owned and managed facilities throughout North America. U-Haul is the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry and is the largest retailer of propane in the U.S.

Contact:

Andrea Batchelor
Jeff Lockridge
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 602-263-6981
Website: uhaul.com

SOURCE U-Haul