3 of our failed large stores are now converted to storage units. How much is your crap worth to store it for $100 a month I wonder.
While this is off topic I ran a self storage facility of 110 units for a few years . It is absolutely mind boggling the junk people would keep in a unit for months and even yearâs
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Agree I have seen a few sales for non payment of rent most of it needed to be hauled to the dump.
Gas station chains like Sheetz are known for moving into an area that doesnât need new stations. They oversaturate the market and outlast the others, making them close. There often is no need for a new station, except to expand the Sheetz empire. I suppose we could say constructing those stations is demand based, but not in the way you mean it. We had a couple gas stations around me that shut down and were vacant for a long time, one for more than a decade, because the new owner had to remove the tanks and rehabilitate the land before they could build something else. Finally, a chain restaurant bought that long vacant spot and built their restaurant. This corner is a very busy area in an affluent area.
Iâll disagree with you a bit there. âThey donât build them like they used toâ, as they say. Seriously though, a historic building is more worthy of salvaging than a strip mall/autozone. Ambience, and all. But, a vacant run down building is still a vacant run down building. Although the first or oldest hardware store downtown is more salvageable than one of the strip mall joints. Nobodyâs going to put money into revitalizing a cinder block box.
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Eh, I could argue that Sheetz makes gasoline more affordable for the unwashed masses since they drive down the price (I can say that because Iâm probably classified as such). But I wonât! 
I think we all know a CA city is banning new gas stations in an effort to convey itself (or force upon itâs inhabitants) the ideological illusion of being âgreenâ.
Viable, affordable alternatives first, please. Says an unwashed scrapyard worker lol. Make what youâre pushing better than what we are already buying. Then you wonât need to âbanâ anything.
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I went to a few storage locker auctions, The one I saw that might have been worthwhile was a 68 pontiac something or other, lets think about lets say average price for 50 years of $40 a month. 24 grand, some cars could have been worth it!
Ramsey is clearly a moron.
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Speculation is that the big box and strip mall complex across from where I work is a write off for the corporation that owns it. There were grand plans for a remodel of the complex but thatâs stalled. The old Toys R Us and Office Depot have been redeveloped with Harbor Freight and a gym splitting the Toys R Us and family medicine clinic taking the Office Depot building.
And also a jerk to work for while he makes hisself rich.
I donât have a bulldozer, Iâll try to rent one.
The gas station in the picture was rebuilt and opened last summer after 8 years of vacancy. Some would view that as a problem, hundreds of boarded up buildings on main boulevards waiting years for a purpose.
Glad all worked out well. Any warning signs you want to pass on to the buds here?
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Well, even if you are middle aged and overweight you shouldnât get winded running up a flight of stairs to grab your keys.
If you and your son are shoveling 5 yards of bark in your flowerbeds, those âtightâ chest and shoulder muscles might be due to lack of blood flow.
If youâre on vacation and snorkeling 100 yards offshore and you need a break swimming in because you canât catch your breath and your chest hurts, wellâŠ
Also seems some people are just prone to coronary disease. Dad had 3 heart attacks, stents, and a triple bypass but lived to 90. Uncle Lou not so lucky, died of a heart attack at 49. My cousin, fit and trim, 22 years on the fire department, referees youth soccer on weekends, had a 5-way bypass last summer. Me, very low cholesterol, resting heart rate in the 50âs, on my feet 9 hours a day in an auto shop.
So if you feel tired more easily than you used to, if anything just doesnât feel right, tell your doctor, get checked out. I had no idea how sluggish I was getting. I woke up 2 hours after surgery and already felt better than I had in years.
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Where I live, the nearest gas stations are 6 miles away, and my Costco station is 7 miles away. Driving one extra mile to save perhaps as much as 30 cents per gallon seems like a pretty sound decision on my part.
But, in most cases, I gas-up during a âsenior hourâ visit. Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9-10 AM, only senior citizens and healthcare workers are admitted to the store, and the nearly-empty nature of the store is really nice. Then, after my easy shopping tour, I gas-up at the nearly-empty gas pumps.
Youâre looking at it from a national point of view. Cities are different. Cities in general donât have a lot of gas stations. I know of only 3 in Boston.
You just changed the subject. We were talking about your assertion that building new gas stations is about supply and demand, and that isnât always the case. There was another gas station near me that shut down a few years ago. This one was bought by Exxon Mobil, razed, and reopened as a Mobil station. It wasnât needed, the previous station of a different oil company, was closed for lack of profit. The new Mobil station also build a 7-Eleven on site, closing the 7-Eleven about 1/4 mile away. Now that building is vacant. Iâm sure the old 7-Eleven will be occupied by another restaurant soon, they almost always do well here.
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I find that quite odd. Where does everyone buy gas?
I live in a small city in Oregon. I will drive 6 miles to work today and pass by 5 gas stations on the way.
When I lived in the Seattle area I ran a Shell station for several years. I had 6 other fuel retailers within a 1.5 mile radius.
Of course cities in general have a lot of gas stations, thatâs where all the cars are. At least out west.
A Google search seems to show at least 17 gas stations in Boston .
I wonder if many of those are in the surrounding neighborhoods that Boston has absorbed or is surrounded by. I think @MikeInNH is right about Boston proper (the original area of the city) having very few gas stations
Outside the city. I never drive in Boston. Iâll drive to a T station or the commuter rail. Never drive in NYC either.