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Saw this on your Vermont Woods Facebook page. It would be a gutsy move.
My two cents:
On the plus side, it's re-using an existing building, making it new again in a green way. And, there's a ton of traffic across the street.
But on the down side:
-- Those people across the way are stopping for the view, the gift shop, the nature museum. It's going to be difficult to draw them across a busy highway, and make them climb a hill, to look at furniture.
-- Alternatively, you need to get people to pull into the parking lot, attracted by the furniture sign and whatever publicity you can do. That's hard, too — on Route 9 they are on their way from one place to another, not looking for a place to shop for furniture.
So:
I could see a restaurant in that place again, but not a furniture store. I would be looking instead at locations with a lot of foot traffic, like Wilmington (once rebuilt) or downtown Brattleboro.
Vermont Skyline Project: Feasibility Study
Ken and I are under contract at Vermont Woods Studios to purchase the old Skyline Restaurant on Hogback Mountain in Marlboro, Vermont for use as a small furniture showroom, administrative office and cafe. Right now our emphasis is on conducting a feasibility study to see if the property can be...
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