Check out our photo gallery and video, then you decide. What new business should fill the enormous empty building in the heart of downtown Sussex? Tell us in the comments, and maybe it could spark some action.
After being vacant for more than eight years, the old Eggerts Furniture Clearance Center in the heart of downtown is certainly an empty eye sore. However, according to the building's realtor, that could change soon. Lori Hake of Judson and Associates says there's been recent interest in the space, including a local man looking to develop the building into a new retail hot spot. "We've got a retailer that's looking at it," Hake said. "It could turn into something like retail spaces downstairs and office spaces upstairs. The village is also open to it being residential, but they'd really like the first floor to be retail space because of all the great work about to happen on Main Street." That’s why Patch turned its “Visions for Vacancies” …
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The huge vacant corner has been under discussion for over a year. What's your take?
For Sussex Patch’s second “Visions for Vacancies” column, let’s turn our attention toward the former Mammoth Springs Cannery Company property. Located at the corner of Main Street and Waukesha Avenue, the 10-acre plot has been in negotiations for over a year, mainly due to the location of the Bugline trail. One-eighth of an acre needs to be moved to develop on the land. Arthur Sawall, a Brookfield man who purchased the property in Jan. 2010, has been working with the village to get federal permission to move the trail from the center of the property to the outskirts. Because the former Bugline Railroad provided drop-offs and pick-ups of railroad freight cars to the sprawling cannery factory, the rails ran essentially right through the …
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The 10-acre site sits at this corner.
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The old Laundromat on Main Street has been vacant for months. Have any suggestions?
Consider this your virtual way of reaching out to Sussex officials, a modern spin on going to the CDA and Plan Commission meetings to submit your comments. Each week Sussex Patch will be taking a vacant building or plot of land in town and turning it over to our readers to decide what they think should be in the space. Forget about the complicated regulations, the zoning restrictions and everything else that might put a wrench in your genius idea. Plain and simple: What business do you want in this specific location? For the first week of our column we'll start with one of the most visible and accessible pieces of commercial real estate currently up for lease: the empty storefront between Anytime Fitness and the new Marcileno's Pizzeria …
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Marcileno's Pizzeria & Grill
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Amy Walsh
10:28 pm on Monday, June 11, 2012
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