Interview: M.E. Kirwan, founder and president, A2 Art Storage and Services

Having launched just this year, A2 Art Storage and Services is M.E. Kirwan’s response to an underserved self-storage market. A2 is a museum-grade art storage facility for objects of nearly any size, shape, medium or value. Kirwan, who is A2’s founder and president, has extensive experience in the self-storage industry. Her father founded Acorn Mini Storage in the mid-1980s, which her husband now runs. The 35,000-square-foot art-storage facility in Roseville was strategically rehabilitated to include features needed for this type of storage, which included climate and pest control, security features, fire suppression and inventory management. Art collectors, artists and institutions all use the facility to store items. Kirwan tells Reporter Kelly Busche, “We are having regular people reaching out [who are] looking for our services, and I really kind of think we’ve only scratched the surface here [having] just been open since mid-May.”