New U-Haul Center is Next to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Company’s 98th store in
U-Haul Moving & Storage at University Avenue began serving customers on Jan. 16. The store sits right next to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus and will cater to the needs of Illini students and university personnel in addition to the residents of
Store hours are 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday and Saturday; 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday; and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Reserve self-storage and moving equipment on the U-Haul app or call the University Avenue team at (217) 351-7040.
The center’s five-story, 84,360-square-foot main building holds 1,125 indoor storage units with high-tech security features at affordable price points. There are 740 climate-controlled rooms and 385 indoor heated rooms for rent.
In addition to self-storage, customers have access to truck and trailer sharing services; professional hitch instillation and towing accessories; a large retail showroom with boxes and moving supplies; drive-in load/unload bays to offer storage customers protection from the weather; green community programs like Take A Box Leave A Box; and much more.
The property also includes a U-Box® warehouse with the capacity to store 700 of the Company’s award-winning portable moving containers.
“This is a prime location right next to the university campus, which will enable us to reach more students in need of our trusted moving and storage services,” said Kevin Barringer, U-Haul Company of
Barringer plans to hire up to 15 Team Members to staff U-Haul at University Avenue. U-Haul will look to hire locally to promote job growth within the
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Founded in 1945, U-Haul is the No. 1 choice of do-it-yourself movers with more than 23,000 rental locations across all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces. The U-Haul app makes it easy for customers to use U-Haul Truck Share 24/7 to access trucks anytime through the self-dispatch and -return options on their smartphones with our patented Live Verify technology. Our customers' patronage has enabled the U-Haul fleet to grow to 193,100 trucks, 138,700 trailers and 40,200 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in
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