High Ridge Business Profile
Family Farm Grows Into Thriving Storage Facility
Fond childhood memories prompted Brian Haskins to buy a High Ridge farm, which he eventually converted into a storage business, serving 575 tenants.
Brian Haskins, owner of Antire-44 Haskins Storage, is a hometown boy who went to Northwest High School. He left the area for a few years, moving all the way out to Ballwin after he married his wife Becky. But he still had fond memories of the farm he grew up next to in High Ridge back in the 1960s. “I used to sneak over there and hunt squirrels and rabbits,” he said. He never dreamed that he would one day buy the farm, but in 1991 he did. He and his family kept a few horses, cows and chickens on the farm and grew pumpkins as a fundraiser for his kid’s baseball team. The idea to start a storage facility came about by accident. He was in a different line of work at the time—landscaping. But by 2001, he was letting a few neighbors use extra …
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