ANOTHER PART OF DOWNTOWN FOR SALE: Last week, About Town wrote about the restoration of the Pacheco Building, also known as Oddfellow’s Hall, a historic building in downtown Stoughton, located next to the FirstParish Universalist Church.
This week, we write about another building - this one located directly across from the Stoughton Train Station.
It’s the long closed up NAPA Auto Parts store, which is an eyesore on very visible Wyman Street.
The good news is that the building, which for the past decade has been used as a storage facility for All Care Home Health Services, is now for sale. The owner, Sandra Davis and her husband Lester, have it listed for $250,000 with The Fred Yaitanes and Nadine Israel Team at Keller Williams in Easton.
This building, which has 8,000 square feet of office, retail and warehouse space, is assessed at $201,900 by the Town of Stoughton.
The 48 Wyman Street building boasts 4,600 square feet of floor space downstairs, and an additional 3,500 s.f. of finished space upstairs. There are 14 foot overhead doors in a rear accessible space across from the MBTA parking lot off Railroad Avenue.
Lester Davis, who owns the building with his wife, told About Town, “There is a fairly new roof on the building, as well as heating and air conditioning that are brand new. They have never been used. The outside needs to be spruced up. The inside is good for storage, but it would need to be fully rehabbed if you were going to use it for office or retail. It has a new electrical system, which is now up to code, as well.”
Davis said the location would be perfect for a retail business, a print shop, or just a perfect place for someone that needs inside storage space for vehicles, or just a place for basic storage.
Yaitanes tells About Town, “Like other downtown businesses, there’s street parking, but this one also has parking inside. It could make a nice potential restaurant. It could be subdivided and leased out for a number of businesses within. It is central business district zoned."
Yaitanes continued, "With the town’s new master plan, the work of John Stagnone on the Theatre, and the new focus on refurbishing the downtown as a whole, this fits right in. All in all, the downtown will be a much nicer destination, in time.”
The listing price for the property is $250,000 and The Fred and Nadine Team can be reached at Keller Williams Realty at 781-341-8330, or via email at sold@fredandnadine.com.
It would be nice if the old NAPA property was sold and rehabbed, along with the railroad station across the street (which the Town may soon own and try to turn around and sell to someone looking to make it into a restaurant or some other type of business).
Add in the new commercial/residential property that Scott Hersee is building at Morton and Wyman Streets, the Pacheco building makeover, and John Stagnone’s attempt to re-open and rehabilitate the old State Theatre in Stoughton Center, and you have the potential for a total rejuvenation of downtown Stoughton!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Wendy Schulze, First Lady of Ahavath Torah Congregation, where her husband David is President. Wendy is Assistant Controller at Chemic Laboratories, Inc.; to award-winning photographer and videographer, Thomas C. Fitzgerald, better known as "dad" to adopted greyhound Harper; to former Stoughton Finance Committee Chairman Bernie Pigeon, who taught me everything when I first joined the Committee over a decade and a half ago; to Stoughton authorKyle Darcy, whose book, "Under Current Conditions" is a great read; and, to Lou's Custom Exhaust in Stoughton, celebrating 22 years today.
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