To recognize their father’s entrepreneurial spirit, the Shorma family annually honors other family business leaders. The Edward Shorma Excellence in Family Business Award was established by the Shorma family through the Prairie Family Business Association in 2015 to recognize and celebrate multigenerational family businesses that positively impact the local economy and the surrounding communities.
This year, the Shorma Family Business Award honoree is a family business with roots that started in the 1970’s – the Hendricks Family of Five Star Storage.
The Hendricks family’s entrepreneurial journey began in the early 1970s when Mel and Harriet Hendricks sold Mel’s Electric in Wyndmere, ND, to establish Hendricks Inc., focusing on apartment projects in rural North Dakota. The company grew steadily, expanding into new communities across the Dakotas and into Montana throughout the 1980s. In 1994, the company was handed down to their son, Chuck Hendricks, and rebranded as Hendricks Property Management (HPM).
In 2004, HPM purchased four acres in Fargo to build a new office, which already included four self-storage buildings operating under the name Five Star Storage.
