Roseville Vision For Vacancies: What Now for Former Ultimate Electronics Building?
Across from Rosedale Center, the empty site is a prime piece of real estate.
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Editor's Note: Vision for Vacancies is new feature of Roseville Patch. We will be periodically posting up stories about empty spaces in town and asking for your suggetions on what you would like to see move in those darkened venues. .
When Ultimate Electronics shuttered its Roseville store last year as part of a company-wide liquidation, the consumer electronics merchant vacated a 17,000 square-building in the heart of the city's retail district.
The former Ultimate Electronics buidling, at 1723 County Road B-2, is just north of the regional Rosedale Center.
So what would you like to see in this vacant store front? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Currently, the property is listed by the Minneapolis office of Mid-America Real Estate Group. For further information, contact Jesseka Doherty at 952-563-6693 (jdoherty@midamericagrp.com) or Doug Sailor at 952-563-6666 (dsailor@midamericagrp.com).
Meanwhile, know of any other empty retail spaces you'd like us to highlight. Send your suggestions to editor Scott Carlson at scott.carlson@patch.com.
Sara Barsel
7:21 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012
Roseville has an abundance of vacant and/or underused commercial properties. Rather than see more stores inhabit Roseville's malls, I would like to see the vacant and/or underused malls repurposed. Several of these sites have sufficient infrastructure (i.e. road access and parking) to serve as potential community center sites, if Roseville were to finally decide to build a community center, rather than decentralized neighborhood park centers. Although it is naive, I would also like to see a moratorium on / cessation of construction of new commercial sites, at least until the existing sites are >90% occupied. With the increase in online shopping, one can't help but think that there is / will be a decline in the utility and/or need for more physical stores in our community.
Jim H
8:45 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sara, those are some very interesting thoughts as the city considers another Walmart.
Scott Carlson
11:07 pm on Monday, April 23, 2012
Sara,
I like your thinking about a community center. What do other readers think? Please join the discussion.