CHARITY STORAGE SERVING OUR INDUSTRY


Self-Storage And Charity Storage Give Back


By Mario Macaluso Arthur Luebke I


had the good fortune to meet John Eisenbarth, vice president of opera- tions for Everett, Wash.-based West


Coast Self-Storage, about 11 years ago. It became apparent to me that his


business acumen included much more than growing the company and increasing stakeholder value. It also included giving back to the industry and the communities in which they serve. Eisenbarth shared his experi- ence with me and detailed how he pretty much grew up in the industry. Prior to joining the West Coast Self-


Storage team, he worked his way from Shurgard assistant manager to a market manager responsible for more than 56 stores in Puget Sound, Wash. He learned the industry from the ground up, and shortly after joining Shurgard in 1995, Eisenbarth man- aged several of the company’s largest and most profitable Seattle-area stor- age centers. He was quickly promoted to district manager, directing the oper- ations of 20 stores. In 2003, John took on the market manager role in Portland, where real estate activities were added to his operational duties. In addition to serving as a member


of the Washington Self Storage Association’s board of directors, Eisenbarth and the West Coast Self- Storage team find ways to give back to our industry and the community.


FIRST QUARTER 2023 West Coast Self-Storage has been


a proud supporter of Charity Storage and its philanthropic mission of help- ing organizations, including Barry Hoeven’s Kure It Cancer Research foundation and the Self Storage Association Foundation (SSAF) Scholarship Program. The company has been involved with Charity Storage for several years because it believes in giving back to the communities where it has storage facilities. Eisenbarth says, “We work with


Charity Storage at a number of our facilities throughout the five states that we serve: Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, and Nevada.” A great example of West Coast’s


partnership with Charity Storage is at one facility in DuPont, Wash. Since its opening, West Coast Self-Storage DuPont has donated a storage unit for donations to Charity Storage. Arthur Luebke, the store manager there at the time, who’s now a district manager, wanted to introduce the company to the community and find a way to give back to the veterans in the area since the store is located very near to Joint Base Lewis McChord and has a large veteran population. So, it was decided that the Wounded Warrior Project would be its charity of choice. As it was a new store at the time, West Coast Self-Storage DuPont had several


unused storage units that would work for the purpose. Luebke and his staff went throughout the DuPont community asking for donations to fill the unit, in addition to asking existing tenants if they had anything they could donate. The campaign was so successful that West Coast Self-Storage DuPont ended up winning Charity Storage’s Auction Contest, which is awarded to the stor- age facility that raised the most money through Charity Storage auctions. West Coast Self-Storage DuPont continues to have a designated unit for Charity Storage that they promote via signage around the store. As the unit fills up, they auction it off through their part- nership with Storage Treasures, which then donates the proceeds to Charity Storage. The program has been very successful, with thousands of dollars raised for both Wounded Warrior Project and Children’s Cancer Society. Now we cannot guarantee that if


you join Charity Storage you will auto- matically be rewarded with huge suc- cess. But we do believe that if every- one of us gives a little, we can accomplish a lot together. It is in giving that we receive.


Success Is Planned West Coast Self-Storage was listed on the Inside Self-Storage Top Operators List for 2022, which ranks the


Self-Storage NOW! 37 West Coast


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