Friday, August 6, 2010
Events City Hall East garage sale — it's on!
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:27 PM
OK, scavengers, we caught your attention back in April with a cover story titled "The lost world of City Hall East," complete with photos of antique machinery, vast storerooms and a sea of old chairs, pictured here:
- Joeff Davis
- I'll take that one — yeah, 43rd from the left and 115th from the back
Reader reaction could be summed up thusly: "How can I get my hands on some of that cool junk?"
Then, last month, we teased you with word that city officials were, indeed, planning to hold a rummage sale of sorts, but had been hindered by the rules governing disposition of city property.
Finally, however, I can announce the dates of the Great City Hall East Garage Sale — pending Council approval, naturally.
Beginning Monday, Aug. 23, and ending the following Saturday, Aug. 28, the basement doors of the 2 million-square-foot former Sears regional distribution center will be flung open and shoppers will be able to roam through a warehouse-sized area filled with old chairs, filing cabinets, office furniture, fixtures, appliances and other assorted crap. I haven't been by recently to check out the inventory, but I'm told there'll be more than 4,700 items for sale.
Sadly, the hundreds of handmade pine boxes containing years' worth of core samples won't be among them — those were tossed in a landfill earlier this summer.
I have no information on prices, but my guess is that stuff will be priced to move. And what will happen to things that don't sell? Well, on Thursday, Sept. 2, the city will hold an absolute auction for anything left over — meaning highest bid wins, regardless of amount.
A couple of more caveats: the city is still trying to figure out what to do with all of the bad-ass retro equipment in the maintenance room, so the old oak file drawers will not be part of the sale.
Also — and I realize this is a downer — customers will not be allowed to explore the 45-acre building.
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Thanks COA for wasting all of our taxpayer money...with too many new "office chairs and new desks" for various fiefdoms over the past administrations...
Great story. Consumers should be able to snag some remarkable deals. And the city gets to convert what is now regarded as junk into some desperately needed cash. I hope the turnouts are huge so that very little or none of this surplus ends up going to waste in a landfill.
I cannot believe that they threw pine boxes and who knows what else away into a landfill - a story should be done on that. Wasteful government that should be leading the reuse recycle movement! What a waste.
What would've been more of a waste would be to pay a contractor for the extra time to remove the contents of those "hand-made pine boxes" before throwing away the core samples and dirt just so some poster on CL could feel like the boxes were being reused. Be reasonable people.
I absolutely would've bought one of those core samples if they'd held onto them long enough to sell at this sale. A literal piece of the city's natural history that also played a functional role in how the city was built -- how can anyone not see the value in that?
What time does the sale open and close each day?? How come no one has listed that???
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