U-Haul^® is serving customers at its first retail, moving and self-storage facility in Panama City Beach.

U-Haul Moving & Storage of Panama City Beach at 11222 Hutchison Blvd. was acquired on Dec. 17. The former A+ Storage^® location sits on 2.18 acres and is located across from Edgewater Villas, one block from Front Beach Road and the Gulf of Mexico.

U-Haul of Panama City Beach offers a three-story building with more than 500 indoor climate-controlled storage rooms at affordable price points. Customers also have access to moving trucks and a retail showroom with boxes and moving supplies.

Business hours are 7 a.m.-7 p.m. daily (open till 8 p.m. Friday). Reserve storage or rental equipment on the U-Haul app or call the Panama City Beach team at (850) 708-1349.

“We are located in a rapidly growing area of Panama City Beach and will cater to a large customer base that has been underserved,” said Chad Rome, U-Haul Company of South Alabama president. “This is a new market for us in terms of a corporate store, so we’re very excited about this expansion and look forward to being a valued member of the business community.”

Rome is hiring up to 10 Team Members to help staff the facility. U-Haul seeks to hire locally to promote job growth within the communities it serves. U-Haul, founded by a WWII Navy veteran and honored as a Best for Vets employer by The Military Times, actively recruits veterans and gives them hiring preference. Find U-Haul careers at uhauljobs.com.

U-Haul of Panama City Beach is the 172nd Company-owned store to open in Florida.

About U-HAUL

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 192,000 trucks, 138,700 trailers and 39,500 towing devices. U-Haul is the third largest self-storage operator in North America with 1,024,000 rentable units and 88.5 million square feet of self-storage space at Company-owned and -managed facilities. U-Haul is the top retailer of propane in the U.S. and the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket industry. Get the U-Haul app from the App Store or Google Play.

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