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Look for 2,566 square feet of a Rochester commercial building plus a rental/residential home will hit the auction block on July 14 @ 5 p.m.
Since everyone already believes I only report the so-called "bad" stuff, I thought I might as well add this one. I know a few of you have commented on this already on the blog.
So I saw Rochester's Hundred Acres Woods development in the our classified section this week.
If you are looking to start a restaurant, you might want to plan on doing some shopping on Oct. 24.
The contents of two closing Rochester restaurants – Camille's Sidewalk Cafe and Salad Bros. on Second Street Southwest – will be auctioned off that day.
The way I understand it, Salad Bros. sale is slated for 10 a.m. and Camille's for 2 p.m.
The double header should have the folks at Grafe Auction in Spring Valley hopping that Friday.
Here's some more detail on the transformation of the Trading Post tool store in Rochester.
I believe the store in the next week or so – at least by Oct. 1. Then the folks at Grafe Auction will auction off excess inventory – "Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tools" – on Oct. 18-19.
While this store is closing after about a year in business, its owner Pace Electronics is still staying in the tool business. It will offer "pretty much wholesale business-to-business" sales as well as online catalog sales, Pace leader Pat Deutsch.
And the original Trading Post store, based in Gordonsville, Minn., will stay open. In fact, Deutsch says his company plans to remodel it to make it more "consumer friendly."
This morning Maas Cos. held an auction to sell two Rochester commercial buildings off of Elton Hills Drive Northwest.
The buzz is that one sold - 1932 Viking Drive N.W. That's the old Zumbro Valley Mental Health building.
The other one on the block - 315 Elton Hills Drive NW – didn't sell, according to my source at the sale.
I'll check to confirm this and hopefully get more details, like the buyer of the Zumbro building and what will happen to the old Buy Rite building.
The last night The Ranch on Rochester's South Broadway will serve meals is Sept. 13.
Remember, this is the deal where the Ranch will be mostly leveled and gutted and rebuilt into a Whiskey Creek Wood Fire Grill steakhouse. That's Whiskey Creek, not Whiskey Bones.
The owners will be same.
Right after the the closing, an auction to sell off the dining room furnishings, kitchen equipment, architectural components, and everything is slated for 10:30 a.m. Sept. 16.
Grafe Auction Co. will do the honors.
I'll have more on this soon.
The auction of the 17,000-square-foot grass and asphalt plot by the ShopKo South sign and Culver's is slated for June 27.
This is parcel that ShopKo was in talks with a fast food place (any guesses?), but the deal fell through. Now they have moved a Park and Ride spot from there and are seriously trying to move the lot to a new owner.
It sounds like Krause Auctioneering is moving to a new Rochester base for its consignment auctions.
The word is that Cols. Ron and Patty Krause will run the Krause Auction House in the former Frames and More store at 2130 South Broadway. That's the 21st Century Building.
The plan is to have auctions on Mondays (including Memorial Day) and Thursdays.
I should have more on this soon.
• Rochester’s ShopKo South store recently had a city Park and Ride location moved away from an out lot slated for development.
So what’s the next step for the 17,000-square-foot grass and asphalt plot?
The auction block, said Doug McHose, ShopKo’s senior vice president of operations.
“We were in conversations with a fast food retailer,” he said. “But that deal fell apart and a little bit of that was due to the Park and Ride.”
Now that obstacle is gone, the new plan is to sell it by auction in the near future.
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