**Exhibit 10.6****EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT**     THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (“Employment Agreement”) is entered into as of the                      day of                    ,                      , among Sovran Self Storage, Inc., a Maryland corporation and Sovran AcquisitionLimited Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Corporation” or the “Partnership”,respectively and collectively the “Company”), and                      (the “Employee”).W I T N E S S E T H:     WHEREAS, the Employee is a valuable employee of the Company and an integral part of itsmanagement team;     WHEREAS, the Company wishes to attract and retain well-qualified personnel and to assurecontinuity of management, which will be essential to its ability to evaluate and respond to anyactual or threatened Change in Control (as defined below) in the best interests of shareholders;     WHEREAS, the Company understands that any actual or threatened Change in Control will presentsignificant concerns for the Employee with respect to his financial and job security;     WHEREAS, the Company wishes to encourage the Employee to continue his career and services withthe Company for the period during and after an actual or threatened Change in Control and to assureto the Company the Employee’s services during the period in which such a Change in Control isthreatened; and     WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”) and the Partnership havedetermined that it would be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders and partnersto assure continuity in the management of the Company in the event of a Change in Control byentering into an employment continuation and noncompete agreement with Employee;     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises herein contained, the parties agree asfollows:     1. Employment.          (a) The Company hereby employs the Employee and the Employee hereby accepts such employment,on the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth.          (b) During the term of this Employment Agreement, the Employee shall devote his entirebusiness time and all reasonable efforts to his employment in that capacity with such other dutiesas may be reasonably requested from time to time by the Officers of the Company.     2. Compensation.     The Company will pay Employee the salary and provide the benefits as determined from time totime.     3. Term.     This Employment Agreement shall have a continuous term until terminated as provided inParagraph 4.     4. Termination.
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          (a) This Employment Agreement will terminate upon Employee’s death or retirement.          (b) The Company may terminate this Employment Agreement upon at least thirty (30) days’written notice in the event of Employee’s “disability.” For purposes of this Employment Agreement,the Employee’s “disability” shall be deemed to have occurred only after ninety (90) days in theaggregate during any consecutive twelve (12) month period, the Employee, by reason of his physicalor mental disability or illness, shall have been unable to substantially discharge his duties underthis Employment Agreement.          (c) The Company may terminate this Employment Agreement for “cause.” For purposes of thisEmployment Agreement, “cause” shall mean (i) The Employee’s fraud, commissionof a felony, commission of an act or series of acts ofdishonesty which are inimical to the best interests of theCompany, or the Employee’s willful and substantial failure toperform his duties under this Employment Agreement; or  (ii) The Employee’s breach of anymaterial provision of this Employment Agreement; or  (iii) The Employee’s commission of anact of moral turpitude, dishonesty or fraud which would renderhis continued employment materially damaging or detrimental tothe Company.          (d) The Company may terminate this Employment Agreement without cause by notifying Employee inwriting of its election to terminate at least thirty (30) days before the effective date oftermination.          (e) After a Change In Control (as defined below), Employee may terminate this EmploymentAgreement for “good reason.” “Good reason” shall exist if: (i) the Company materially changesthe Employee’s duties and responsibilities;  (ii) the Employee’s place ofemployment or the principal executive offices of the Company arelocated more than thirty (30) miles from the geographical centerof Williamsville, New York;  (iii) the Company diminishes thesalary, fringe benefits or other compensation being paid to theEmployee;  (iv) there occurs a material breach bythe Company of any of its obligations under this EmploymentAgreement, which breach has not been cured in all materialrespects within thirty (30) days after the Employee gives noticethereof of the Company;  (v) the failure of any successor ofthe Company to furnish the assurances provided for in Section7(c).          (f) This Employment Agreement may be terminated by mutual agreement of the Company and theEmployee.          (g) Employee may terminate this Employment Agreement at any time with thirty (30) days’written notice to the Company, and the Company may accelerate the effective date of termination toany other date up to the date of notice of acceleration.
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          (h) The Company will pay Employee on the effective date of termination all unpaid compensationat the rate then in effect through the effective date of termination.     5. Severance Payments          (a) The Company will make the severance payments specified in Section 5(b) or (c) below ifthis Employment Agreement is terminated pursuant to Sections 4(d) or (e) hereof.          (b) If the Employment Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 4(d) prior to a “Change InControl” (as defined below), as severance payments under this Section 5(b), the Company will payEmployee the severance benefits then in effect under the Company’s severance policy for allemployees.          (c) If this Employment Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 4(d) or (e) withintwenty-four (24) months after a Change in Control of the Company has occurred, the Company shallpay the Employee a lump sum equal to twice the salary and bonus paid to the Employee in the priorcalendar year. This lump sum shall be paid within 30 days after the effective date of termination.In addition, health insurance benefits for the Employee will be continued for twenty-four (24)months after the effective date of termination upon substantially the same terms as provided toEmployee immediately before the Change in Control. For the purposes of this Employment Agreement,a “Change in Control” shall be deemed to have occurred if any of the following have occurred: (i) either (A) the Corporation shallreceive a report on Schedule 13D, or an amendment to such areport, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commissionpursuant to Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934(the “1934 Act”) disclosing that any person (as such term isused in Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act) (“Person”), is thebeneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of twenty (20) percentor more of the outstanding stock of the Corporation or (B) theCompany has actual knowledge of facts which would require anyPerson to file such a report on Schedule 13D, or to make anamendment to such a report, with the SEC (or would be requiredto file such a report or amendment upon the lapse of theapplicable period of time specified in Section 13(d) of the 1934Act) disclosing that such Person is the beneficial owner,directly or indirectly, of twenty (20) percent or more of theoutstanding stock of the Corporation;  (ii) purchase by any Person, otherthan the Company or a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company oran employee benefit plan sponsored or maintained by the Companyor a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, of shares pursuantto a tender or exchange offer to acquire any stock of theCorporation (or securities, including units of limitedpartnership interests, convertible into stock) for cash,securities or any other consideration provided that, afterconsummation of the offer, such Person is the beneficial owner(as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the 1934 Act), directly orindirectly, of twenty (20) percent or more of the outstandingstock of the Corporation (calculated as provided in paragraph(d) of Rule 13d-3 under the 1934 Act in the case of rights toacquire stock);  (iii) approval by the shareholders ofthe Corporation of (A) any consolidation or merger of, or otherbusiness combination involving, the Corporation in which theCorporation is not to be the continuing or surviving entity orpursuant to which shares of stock of the Corporation would beconverted into cash, securities or other property, other than aconsolidation or merger or business combination of theCorporation in which holders of its stock immediately prior tothe consolidation or
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   merger or business combination have substantially the sameproportionate ownership of common stock of the survivingcorporation immediately after the consolidation or merger orbusiness combination as immediately before, or (B) anyconsolidation or merger or business combination in which theCorporation is the continuing or surviving corporation but inwhich the common shareholders of the Corporation immediatelyprior to the consolidation or merger or business combinationdo not hold at least a majority of the outstanding commonstock of the continuing or surviving corporation (exceptwhere such holders of common stock hold at least a majorityof the common stock of the corporation which owns all of thecommon stock of the Corporation), or (C) any sale, lease,exchange or other transfer by operation of law or otherwise(in one transaction or a series of related transactions) ofall or substantially all the assets of the Corporation or thePartnership; or (iv) a change in the majority of themembers of the Board within a 24-month period unless theelection or nomination for election by the Corporationshareholders of each new director was approved by the vote ofat least two-thirds of the directors then still in office whowere in office at the beginning of the 24-month period.  (v) more than fifty percent (50%) ofthe assets of the Corporation or the Partnership are sold,transferred or otherwise disposed of, whether by operation oflaw or otherwise, other than in the usual and ordinary course ofits business.          (d) Employee shall be under no obligation to mitigate damages with respect to termination andin the event Employee is employed or receives income from any other source there shall be no offsettherefor against the amounts due from the Company hereunder.     6. Covenants and Confidential Information.          (a) The Employee acknowledges the Company’s reliance and expectation of the Employee’scontinued commitment to performance of his duties and responsibilities during the term of thisEmployment Agreement. In light of such reliance and expectation on the part of the Company: (i) During the term of this Employment Agreement and, during the one-year period followingthe termination of this Employment Agreement, the Employee shallnot: (A) own, manage, control or participate in the ownership,management, or control of, or be employed or engaged by orotherwise affiliated or associated as a consultant, independentcontractor or otherwise with, any other corporation,partnership, proprietorship, firm, association or other businessentity engaged in the business of, or otherwise engage in thebusiness of, acquiring, owning, developing or managingself-storage facilities; provided, however, that the ownershipof not more than one percent (1%) of any class of publiclytraded securities of any entity is permitted ; or (B) directlyor indirectly or by acting in concert with others, employ orattempt to employ or solicit for any employment competitive withthe Company, any Company employees.  (ii) During and after the term ofthis Employment Agreement, the Employee shall not, directly orindirectly, disclose, divulge, discuss, copy or otherwise useor suffer to be used in any manner, in
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   competition with, or contrary to the interests of, theCompany, any confidential information relating to theCompany’s operations, properties or otherwise to itsparticular business or other trade secrets of the Company, itbeing acknowledged by the Employee that all such informationregarding the business of the Company compiled or obtainedby, or furnished to, the Employee while the Employee shallhave been employed by or associated with the Company isconfidential information and the Company’s exclusiveproperty; provided, however, that the foregoing restrictionsshall not apply to the extent that such information (A) isclearly obtainable in the public domain, (B) becomesobtainable in the public domain, except by reason of thebreach by the Employee of the terms hereof, (C) was notacquired by the Employee in connection with his employment oraffiliation with the Company, (D) was not acquired by theEmployee from the Company or its representatives, or (E) isrequired to be disclosed by rule or law or by order of acourt or governmental body or agency.          (b) The Employee agrees and understands that the remedy at law for any breach by him of thisParagraph 6 will be inadequate and that the damages flowing from such breach are not readilysusceptible to being measured in monetary terms. Accordingly, it is acknowledged that, uponadequate proof of the Employee’s violation of any legally enforceable provision of this Paragraph6, the Company shall be entitled to immediate injunctive relief and may obtain a temporary orderrestraining any threatened or further breach.          (c) The Employee has carefully considered the nature and extent of the restrictions upon himand the rights and remedies conferred upon the Company under this Paragraph 6, and herebyacknowledges and agrees that the same are reasonable in time and territory, are designed toeliminate competition which otherwise would be unfair to the Company, do not stifle the inherentskill and experience of the Employee, would not operate as a bar to the Employee’s sole means ofsupport, are fully required to protect the legitimate interests of the Company and do not confer abenefit upon the Company disproportionate to the detriment to the Employee.     7. Miscellaneous.          (a) The Employee represents and warrants that he is not a party to any agreement, contract orunderstanding, whether of employment or otherwise, which would restrict or prohibit him fromundertaking or performing employment in accordance with the terms and conditions of this EmploymentAgreement.          (b) The provisions of this Employment Agreement are severable and if any one or moreprovisions may be determined to be illegal or otherwise unenforceable, in whole or in part, theremaining provisions and any partially unenforceable provision to the extent enforceable in anyjurisdiction nevertheless shall be binding and enforceable.          (c) Any successor (whether direct or indirect, by purchase, merger, consolidation orotherwise) to all or substantially all of the business or assets of the Company must, within ten(10) days after Employee’s request, furnish its written assurance that it is bound to perform thisEmployment Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Company would have beenrequired to perform it if no such succession had taken place.          (d) Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Employment Agreement, or thebreach thereof, shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the Rules of the AmericanArbitration Association then pertaining in the City of Buffalo, New York, and judgment upon theaward rendered by the arbitrator or arbitrators may be entered in any court having jurisdictionthereof. The arbitrator or arbitrators shall be deemed to possess the powers to issue mandatoryorders and restraining orders in connection with such arbitration; provided, however, that nothingin this Section 7(d) shall be construed so as to deny the Company the
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right and power to seek and obtain injunctive relief in a court of equity for any breach orthreatened breach by the Employee of any of his covenants contained in Section 6 hereof.          (e) Any notice to be given under this Employment Agreement shall be personally delivered inwriting or shall have been deemed duly given when received after it is posted in the United Statesmail, postage prepaid, registered or certified, return receipt requested, and if mailed to theCompany, shall be addressed to the principal place of business of the Corporation and thePartnership, attention: President, and if mailed to the Employee, shall be addressed to him at hishome address last known on the records of the Company, or at such other address or addresses aseither the Company or the Employee may hereafter designate in writing to the other.          (f) The failure of either party to enforce any provision or provisions of this EmploymentAgreement shall not in any way be construed as a waiver of any such provision or provisions as toany future violations thereof, nor prevent that party thereafter from enforcing each and everyother provision of this Employment Agreement. The rights granted the parties herein are cumulativeand the waiver of any single remedy shall not constitute a waiver of such party’s right to assertall other legal remedies available to it under the circumstances.          (g) This Employment Agreement supersedes all prior employment agreements and understandingsbetween the parties and may not be modified or terminated orally. No modification, termination orattempted waiver shall be valid unless in writing and signed by the party against whom the same issought to be enforced.          (h) This Employment Agreement shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of theState of New York.          (i) Captions and paragraph headings used herein are for convenience and are not a part of thisEmployment Agreement and shall not be used in construing it.     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Employment Agreement on the day and yearfirst set forth above.           SOVRAN SELF STORAGE, INC.             By:                        Title:                       Employee                   SOVRAN ACQUISITION LIMITED PARTNERSHIP                  By   SOVRAN HOLDINGS INC.        General Partner             By:                        Title:             
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