Own your very own National Weather Service Forecast Office Building

[huronicane]

http://gsaauctions.gov/ATTACHMENT/REGNC/CHICA113011001/Invitation_for_Bids.pdf

 

I've got $100, who else? 

 

[A-L-E-K]

looks like a crack house

[Geos]

Don't like the mention of possible asbestos at the site!

 

Looks like it has seen one too many winters.

[huronicane]

More than likely, the asbestos would be in glue holding down vinyl tiles, and maybe in the drywall.  Don't disturb it and you've got no problems.

[TimChgo9]

Wow...

 

That would be a "fixer-upper" using the term loosely, of course.....

[mjwise]

When was the last time there was a weather forecast office in SSM?

[MidwestChaser]

When was the last time there was a weather forecast office in SSM?

 

Late 1990s I think.

[daddylonglegs]

They started the bidding way too high...   I could see if it sat on a lot of property, but .44 acre just isn't cutting it.  A lot of floor space, but the exterior looks horrible.   They don't have trees in SSM?    I'd rip out anything with value (windows/doors/etc) and bulldoze it.

[huronicane]

It's right next to the SSM airport, so there can't be a lot of potential air hazards in the area.  That would explain the lack of trees.

[weatherdavewi]

Completely remodeled on the inside a few years ago.

[Jonger]

Looks like a big trailer.

[Geos]

It's got the weathered-rustic look on the outside! 

[huronicane]

I've always liked a good fixer upper!

[Hoar_Frost]

Just saw this.  My dad grew up in the Soo; my grandparents lived there until the middle 1990's, when they retired to the Keweenaw Peninsula.  So, I've definitely been to the Soo a good many times.  I was interested in the weather at a young age, so I was shown this building when I was a young lad.  The derelict nature of the building fits right in with the rest of the town -- very run down and quite impoverished.  Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, is another great example of how the American counterpart to a Canadian sister city is almost always more run down.