Esracerx46
Plastic
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2018
So we've been in business at our current location for almost 30 years. We have a brand new Caterpillar rental store to our east side. And a storage facility to our West. We have 2 suites at our address. Us and and another equipment dealer. They recently came to us and want to rent the whole building. They've been solid gold tenants and are offering to do an extensive remodel to our building and pay a hefty rent. Almost too good to pass up. Behind our shop is Bobcats yard and behind them I rent out space to some tractor trailers and a concrete company that stores there forms and some trucks. My plan was to let Bobcat have the frontage and build a new building in back. I ran into problems with a septic field due to soil being compacted from having gravel and trucks on top. My existing field, I can't run 2 buildings off of and there's not the room for 2 fields plus 100% future expansion the village would want.
I went to the village to see if I could tap into sewer I thought was close by. The interim director of community development (making 65 bucks an hour...plus another 26 to the search firm the village hired.), The first thing he says when he pulls up the address is, youre not zoned to be doing what you're doing now. Came off as very condescending. Here's a guy that's been here for 3 months telling an established business of 30 years that we can't do business where we're at. I understand him thinking we need to subdivide to build a building in back, but really between the two entities, the amount of people working wouldn't change. Just more iron on the floor. We're a welding job shop. We probably have a village truck in our shop once every other week. You'd think they'd be more understanding/lenient.
So now I'm looking at property. Not really finding anything that fits. Anything industrial is an industrial condo type, and that doesn't work. Any property for sale is now in a TIF district and zoned commercial and I sense a reluctance on their end to zone it light industrial. With grandiose plans of retail shops....on an on ramp next to another storage facility. There's a few other parcels that are interesting, but they want an absolute absurd amount. One has 7 pins and is unwilling to split up...for 1.9 million. Been on the market for years.
So now I don't know what to do. Just recently found out that we're going to be the only company in the county that sells steel/aluminum/stainless to the general public in the county and I'm one county north of Chicago. I sense an opportunity to expand, but I just don't know where I can go. And I don't really want to drag my feet and potentially lose my tenant.
I went to the village to see if I could tap into sewer I thought was close by. The interim director of community development (making 65 bucks an hour...plus another 26 to the search firm the village hired.), The first thing he says when he pulls up the address is, youre not zoned to be doing what you're doing now. Came off as very condescending. Here's a guy that's been here for 3 months telling an established business of 30 years that we can't do business where we're at. I understand him thinking we need to subdivide to build a building in back, but really between the two entities, the amount of people working wouldn't change. Just more iron on the floor. We're a welding job shop. We probably have a village truck in our shop once every other week. You'd think they'd be more understanding/lenient.
So now I'm looking at property. Not really finding anything that fits. Anything industrial is an industrial condo type, and that doesn't work. Any property for sale is now in a TIF district and zoned commercial and I sense a reluctance on their end to zone it light industrial. With grandiose plans of retail shops....on an on ramp next to another storage facility. There's a few other parcels that are interesting, but they want an absolute absurd amount. One has 7 pins and is unwilling to split up...for 1.9 million. Been on the market for years.
So now I don't know what to do. Just recently found out that we're going to be the only company in the county that sells steel/aluminum/stainless to the general public in the county and I'm one county north of Chicago. I sense an opportunity to expand, but I just don't know where I can go. And I don't really want to drag my feet and potentially lose my tenant.