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02-16-2011, 01:19 PM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | New Building - Take 3
We're still very early in the process, but Danny and I have identified another potential store site! The third time's the charm, right?!? 
Ya'll heard about the first fiasco here, and there was a second one I didn't talk about that was less fiasco, but just as disappointing. Anyway, this location is the best of the three in terms of being well suited to our needs. It's got a finished retail space that is as big as our entire current store (which is only ~60% retail space). Then there's a back warehouse area that is 2-3 times that size, there's a dab of office space in another wing, and there's plenty of parking. It's still in Blacksburg, so our radar is up for any possible zoning/building code issues... there aren't any obvious ones, but that doesn't really mean anything.  
I don't want to give away the location until everyone has signed on the dotted lines, but here are some pics of the unfinished warehouse area that we envision being converted to studio space, performance space (for clinics, recitals, rehearsals, etc., all wired into the studio, of course), and a dedicated shipping & receiving area.
These are probably 12-14ft ceilings, so the room is fairly massive (40' x 56'). One great thing for us: it's a blank slate that we can tailor to be exactly what we want it to be. Even better, it's all "private" space (i.e. physically separated from the public retail space), so we can build it out as time and budget permit.
Needless to say, we're pretty darn excited!!   
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02-16-2011, 01:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Casa Grande, Arizona | | | Best of Luck to ya on this one!! Hope it works out.
Mark |
02-16-2011, 01:23 PM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | Fingers crossed for good news, Greg. All the best! |
02-16-2011, 02:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | It is a pretty cool looking building but the outside needs a little work. Good Luck!  |
02-16-2011, 02:11 PM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | No windows! I call it my "Anti-Crash/Anti-Ray" system. Bricks no workee for entry. |
02-16-2011, 02:19 PM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by RocketMusic No windows! I call it my "Anti-Crash/Anti-Ray" system. Bricks no workee for entry. | You seem to forget my Pop's a roofer.  You don't want me in you better remove all holes in said roof deck.  Then again I do have a Gas Chop Saw 
God Bless, Ray
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Originally Posted by RocketMusic Ray is correct! | |
02-16-2011, 05:32 PM
|  | Roscoe FANatic | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jupiter FLA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic  | What a spot!!
It even has a "Bedroom Suite" (bed and bedpan) for those long nights when you can't make it home...
...Is Nurse Ratched on retainer too?
Inquiring minds NEED to know!
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02-16-2011, 05:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Greg: That is indeed exciting news. Funny how things work out sometimes. Steve |
02-16-2011, 05:52 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Looks good! Hoping the best for ya!
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02-16-2011, 06:55 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JBFLA What a spot!!
It even has a "Bedroom Suite" (bed and bedpan) for those long nights when you can't make it home...
...Is Nurse Ratched on retainer too?
Inquiring minds NEED to know! | Absolute best post of the day. Well played. I've heard that the best jokes are the ones where, after hearing, you say to yourself, "Self...I should've thought of that." Bada boom. |
02-16-2011, 07:11 PM
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02-16-2011, 07:31 PM
|  | Well, Ahoy Paloi | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | | Looks great Greg, best of luck.
That is just going to be a bass player's Man Cave right? You don't want to sell anything or make a profit, correct? Because we wouldn't want to call Billy Babbit's mother, right?
Right? |
02-16-2011, 07:34 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic Of course, my immediate afterthought was "I wonder what hismy secretary lookedwill look like?"  |
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02-16-2011, 07:36 PM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Bipslapper Looks great Greg, best of luck.
That is just going to be a bass player's Man Cave right? You don't want to sell anything or make a profit, correct? Because we wouldn't want to call Bob Babbit's mother, right?
Right? | Fixed that for Bass geeks like me.
God Bless, Ray
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Originally Posted by RocketMusic Ray is correct! | |
02-17-2011, 07:33 AM
| | Roscoe FANatic | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Jupiter FLA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bipslapper Looks great Greg, best of luck.
That is just going to be a bass player's Man Cave right? You don't want to sell anything or make a profit, correct? Because we wouldn't want to call Billy Babbit's mother, right?
Right? | Quote: |
Originally Posted by LilRay Originally Posted by Bipslapper
Looks great Greg, best of luck.
That is just going to be a bass player's Man Cave right? You don't want to sell anything or make a profit, correct? Because we wouldn't want to call Bob Babbit's mother, right?
Right?
Fixed that for Bass geeks like me. |
I'm sooo confused:
So, if Billy Bibbet had a son...
...and he was adopted by Bob Babbit...
... he'd be Billy Babbit, right?
I'm sooo confused!! 
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02-17-2011, 07:49 AM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JBFLA I'm sooo confused:
So, if Billy Bibbet had a son...
...and he was adopted by Bob Babbit...
... he'd be Billy Babbit, right?
I'm sooo confused!! | Jim,
It's common knowledge for those of us who've spent our lives in the Cuckoo nest that Nurse Ratched and Billy Bibbet had an illegitamate child that they named Bob. The I in Bibbet was changed by little Bobby to an a for Babbet when he grabbed his first bass.
Stage names n' all y'know. Like Ricardo Valenzuela became Ritchie Valens, so everybody wouldn't notice he was a Latino.
God Bless, Ray
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02-17-2011, 08:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | When did you guys add this to the building?  |
02-18-2011, 02:08 PM
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02-18-2011, 02:13 PM
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02-18-2011, 02:15 PM
|  | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | Congrats! Did the negotiations involve any use (forced or otherwise) of that bed?  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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