Posted by Goose on August 12, 2011 at 06:56:36 from (173.190.237.126):
In Reply to: Dealership fire posted by NY 986 on August 12, 2011 at 06:10:14:
I hate when that happens.
About six years ago, a young local upstart, "Brian", put up a big two story brick building. (On the same site where I once had a body shop. My old building was razed to make room). Brian's building housed an eight bay service facility and a NAPA parts store, with storage on the second floor. When it was about two years old, it burned to the ground one Christmas Eve. The fire apparently started in the heating system.
As it happened, the local Ford dealer had just built a new facility out by the Interstate and the old Ford dealership building was available, itself really not that old a building. Brian leased it within a day or two and immediately got back in business. All of his business records were stored off site, and he was even able to buy a NAPA computer system that a store had just replaced. It all kinda fell into place.
Brian said at the time that he was going to rebuild on the location that burned, but he's since bought the local Chrysler Dodge dealership, operates it separate from the NAPA location, and there's no sign of rebuilding the place that burned. As of now, there's a big concrete slab on the site.
The main part is no one was hurt. Everything else always seems to work out.
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