GLENDALE, CA-Adventures in Space, Public Storage's Rose Bowl Parade float, has won the Grand Marshal's Trophy award for creativity and design. Charles Meier designed and Paradiso Floats built the winning float.

Adventures in Space featured multiple components. Beginning as a single float with spaceship, the float soared 45 feet into the air where ramps stemmed from the “UFO” and three aliens descended. The aliens then traveled around the ship on separate, smaller floats. The aliens eventually re-boarded the spaceship, which then landed back on the float and continued along the parade route. The float is the first in the parade's history to assemble and disassemble during the parade.

Public Storage took its float a step further. For those who could not make it to Pasadena for the New Year's Day parade, public storage sent parts of the float to its 33 regional offices across the country. The float parts spelled out Public Storage's motto “We'll treat your stuff like our stuff” in a secret code.

Meier conceived the float design 20 years ago when he was in high school. Dreams Come True was this year's Rose Parade theme.

When not building award-winning floats, Public Storage is focusing on expanding. The public REIT recently secured a $700-million, one-year loan for acquisition and development opportunities. In October, Public Storage purchased 44 facilities totaling 2.8 million rentable square feet.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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