PODS founder Pete Warhurst recalls hearing stories about desperate hurricane survivors taking up temporary residence in the company’s storage containers after monster storms in 2004 and 2005. That ...

Peter Warhurst started PODS Inc. six years ago with the idea of storing people's stuff: He would deliver his company's distinctive white storage unit to a home, they'd fill it and leave it on their ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. Pete Warhurst had built one self-storage business and was looking for a place to put another in densely populated Pinellas County, where good highway frontage was already scarce. That ...

Portable storage units meant to help movers and remodelers hurt the eyes of neighbors, especially when they linger. Hillsborough may follow St. Petersburg's lead in regulating the units. Perhaps the ...