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U-Haul opens new facility in former Kmart location

The Inter-Mountain photo by Dan Geohagan U-Haul General Manager Porsha Mann stands next to one of the pick-up trucks offered for rental at the Elkins location.

ELKINS — A national chain is making use of part of the former Kmart location in the Valley Pointe Shopping Center.

U-Haul is now operating out of what was the old garden center department of the former Kmart store. This is the first corporate U-Haul location in Elkins, officials said.

“We’ve done a little bit of business so far,” Porsha Mann, general manager of the new U-Haul location, said. “It’s just getting people to know that we are here and what we offer through word of mouth at the moment.”

The store offers a list of helpful services, including renting pick-up trucks, box trucks, trailers and hitch installs and wiring. Since the former Kmart store had a vehicle bay the space now provides an area for U-Haul to make proper intallations of hitchs and wiring.

The U-haul company also offers a new program called U-Box.

“We do a thing called U-Boxes where you can store your stuff here and have it shipped throughout the country,” Mann said. “You load it, we ship it and store it. You can choose to unload it, pick it up yourself or we can have it delivered to you.”

U-Haul has plans to use the remainder of the former Kmart building but those details have not yet been announced, she added.

The U-Haul store is located at 731 Beverly Pike Blvd. The website is still currently under construction but the phone number is 304-591-1086.

The former Elkins Kmart store opened for business in 1994 and closed in March 2017.

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