Scaled back plans include additional space for boat, RV storage
By Aimee Hancock
The city of Englewood, Ohio, has approved plans allowing the owner of a self-storage facility on West National Road to expand the business. Joey Madden, president of MSC Englewood LLC and owner of Extra Space Storage located at 360 W. National Road in Englewood — which is in a former K-Mart building — submitted a request earlier this year to expand the storage facility and develop additional retail and public space along West National Road.
After the planning commission recommended denial of Madden’s request, he withdrew the plans before they could be considered by the city council. Madden submitted a new and scaled-back request in March.
This newest set of plans, approved by council in April, would see the construction of additional, fully enclosed, storage units for boats and RVs at the rear of the property, a marked difference from the initial, withdrawn plans.
Madden said during a public hearing prior to council’s vote on April 9 that RV and boat 
storage has been highly requested. Several residents who live near the property shared concerns about the proposal, including the aesthetics.
Madden agreed to plant trees at the back of the property to provide some visual blockage between the expanded facility and neighbors to the south of the property.
His original request involved extensive plans to develop a “modern retail center,” a restaurant/coffee shop, a ”pocket park,“ and additional storage space in front of the business, in what is now a large parking lot.
The expansion of the storage business would have included the addition of multiple rows of outdoor storage garages. The current 84,000-square-foot Extra Space Storage business is an all-indoor facility.
The new plans would have a more minimal effect on the property, which sits on 9.6 acres of land along the city’s main thoroughfare. But Madden said during the April 9 meeting the business is continuing to fine tune a future proposal to redevelop the front of the property, which will likely include designation of a pocket park in the grassy area.
Aimee Hancock is a reporter for Dayton Daily News.
