For over a quarter of a century, local husband and wife business partners, Clyde and Pat Sare, owners of Acorn Properties, have been leaders in the Mini-Storage Industry in Bartlesville, while simultaneously developing other projects in several Missouri and Oklahoma locations. Their accomplishments, however, do not stop there.

Always industry innovators, Clyde and Pat introduced the first computerized management and access control system to the national mini-storage market in 1982, which, along with their innovative building designs, resulted in Acorn Properties’ recognition by national trade publications. Acorn has a history of creatively re-using and refurbishing existing building fabric wherever possible, enhancing our community and, yet again, catching the first wave of what is a growing development pattern throughout the U.S.

In April of 2002, Clyde and Pat Sare acquired a Structural Insulated Panel Systems (SIPS) Manufacturing Company, USA SIPS, and moved it to Bartlesville from St. Louis, Missouri. Obviously, you may be asking yourself, "What are SIPS?" SIPS are a unique alternative to stick-building, as seen on television in recent episodes of Bob Villa’s HGTV television show, that allow for the extremely fast construction of highly energy efficient homes and commercial buildings. While SIPS are used extensively throughout other areas of the U.S., they have not, to date, been widely used in Oklahoma, a deficit which Clyde and Pat are fast remedying as they aggressively market the product throughout the state and the country.
Find out more about SIPS at www.usa-sips.com

SIPS are truly a complete and environmentally friendly building package approved by the International Building Codes Association. They are sheathed, contain a continuous mass of high density foam that nearly eliminates air movement and heat loss, framed, and ready for wiring when they leave the Bartlesville plant. SIPS are labor saving, energy saving (reducing energy bills by 55-60%), cost effective, safer than stick building in the case of fire, and stronger, in the case of natural disasters from hurricane force winds to earthquakes, than other building systems. The panels can be factory cut to exact design dimensions, including window and door openings and are manufactured with "chases" in the foam core that act like conduits to carry wiring.

Believe it or not, you have probably already seen a SIPS building right here in Bartlesville. Acorn broke ground on their new site at 6451 Nowata Rd., in 2003.
The equestrian inspired complex, designed by Crystal Sare, is fronted with a suite of offices and climate controlled storage built out of SIPS. The new facility contains 200 units in addition to Acorn’s 850 existing units. The site is slated for an expansion of up to 400 additional units.