Depot for sale - Hobby shop?

[pbjwilson]

Here's an interesting real estate listing. Sturgeon Bay is in the Door County peninsula, a very popular tourist area. Anyone interested?

http://www.doorcountyhorizons.com/CURRENT%20LISTINGS/railroad/railroad.htm

[chuck]

Popular Tourist area means a short season.

[1688torpedo]

Paul-  That would be a neat place to have a Toy Train layout & Display. You could have a little of everything in it to make it a interesting place to visit. Take Care.

[Anonymous]

It surely would be great to see the place retained with some sort of railroad-related tie-in, but I can't imagine anyone considering opening a hobby shop/train store these days--regardless of location--not unless they have a whole lot of money available and don't really care if they can make a profit in the business.

As has been noted, Door County is a tourist destination--and a great one, at that.  But tourism is very much a seasonal thing, and aside from restaurants, gift shops, and similar specialty operations (all of which are risky in themselves), I just can't see making a go of a viable train-related enterprise in such a location, nice as it would be to live and work there.

[cnw1995]

Their season is relatively short - summer and briefly fall. I've been up there in the spring and it was pretty dead.

[thor]

Its in nowheresville and the taxes are $5K+?! 

[cnw1995]

Welcome to Wisconsin...

Lotsa condos / vacation homes in this county.

[jonadel]

Well, if it's in WI they should make it into a bar but there probably are three bars on the other three corners. I was on a wonderful motorcycle trip this summer through WI and MN and WI wins hands down on having the most bars in the world, I couldn't believe it. I can only imagine how brutal the winters would be, no thanks.
Jon

[twaldie]

  I have to agree with everyone else, Door County is alive for three months a year (summer), on life support for three (football season) and dead for six.  Hard to think you could get a shop to work there, especially since the closest big town, Green Bay already has a few decent ones.
  I believe Wisconsin does have the most bars, at least as number of bars per resident goes.  I used to live in Marinette, on the west side of Green Bay (the water one, not city), and it was pointed out to me that Marinette had more bars per resident than any other city in the USA.  Of course, after 30 straight days of 20 degrees below zero, you NEED a bar!

Tim

[pbjwilson]

O.K. so you dont like the hobby shop idea. How 'bout a bait shop that sells beer, Packer gear, and snowmobile supplies, with a train layout in the corner. Ya hey dare.

Although these days does it really matter where a store is located when you have a computer and e-bay a few keystrokes away?