Hot shop, gallery and building for sale

[John Gilmor]

Established 40 year old business, hot shop, gallery and building for sale.
Corner location in a converted auto showroom and garage on major North-South and East-West thoroughfares.100' frontage with 5 12' x 7' windows on Main Street in Millerton, NY. 50' frontage on side. 10' x 12' garage door. Studio area 6,000 sq.ft. Gallery 1,600 sq.ft. Office, lunch and packing room 1,600 sq.ft. Plus 7,000 sq.ft. basement with garage door. 600 amp service. 16KW solar panels. The East side of the building abuts a protected trout stream.Located 90 miles North of NYC and just over the border of Northwest Connecticut. 30 minutes from the Berkshires in Massachusetts. 15 minutes from the Metro-North train station, horse country and a world class golf course.Existing customer base of affluent second home owners, tourists and the parents of students attending the numerous prep schools in the area.
Complete glass studio:
Double 250# moly furnace, double doors and roll-away back for easy pot change. Stadleman electronics.
4 annealers 40 x 30 x 34, 2 47 x 30 x 30, and 1 72 x 36 x 30 which set up to spiit in two.1 72" x 36" x 30". All front loading.
12" and 18" glory holes with Pine Ridge burners.
Variable speed lathe.
2 marvers 60 x 24 and 23 x 11
Essemce belt sander takes 7" x 130" belts.
24" lap wheel
Essemce centrifugal casting machine.
Crack-off machine.
Garage.
Sidearm lever press. Takes molds up to 12"
Sidearm lever press. Takes molds up to 24" but needs repair.
Welders
About 50 cast-iron molds. Mostly for tumblers and stemware,hurricanes and globes up to 16"
About 50 wooden molds.
Several antique belt driven lap wheels which can be converted to electric
2 variable speed controlled lathes
2 hot shear machines
2 Essemce pipe rollers. One set uo as stem puller with its own mini glory hole
Assorted frit, rod and blow pipes.
3 ladles
Various batch materials
Batch formula that when Lino was here for demo compared it to Venini, with incredible working properties. If last charge goes in at 6PM it is fined and ready to blow at 8AM
40 years of color formulas.

[Jordan Kube]

Are you willing to part out?

[Pete VanderLaan]

Experience tells me you should price it John.

[Michael Mortara]

Price please?

[John Gilmor]

$750,000 for the building and studio.

[Pete VanderLaan]

That indeed is a fair price John. The trick is more complex. I currently don't know of anyone with that kind of backing to service the debt alone. Mike may be sick of Lava.
I'm currently on a property with a higher value than that but more as a tree farm than a glass works. And not much more. Fine lumber is less popular than wood stove pellets. The Santa Fe property was far more valuable as it turned out, but not as a glass shop. So, Think about that tooling carefully. IMHO.
You have some great stuff listed but these days people seem to make small salable items like pumpkins. If I were younger I'd go after lots of it, but I, like so many are drifting along towards irrelevancy.

Let me know your current private condition if you would please. I do care about that.

[John Gilmor]

Would prefer to sell as package. What are you interested in?

[Pete VanderLaan]

John has asked me to bump this forward. He has sold the building. I don't know his stance on parting out the tooling. Inquire.

[John Gilmor]

Have sold the building am ready to partial the equipment and molds out. Tell me what you are interested in..

[Eben Horton]

Hi John,

id be interested in some tumbler/ drinking glass molds.

[Pete VanderLaan]

These always go better with prices. Make sure you consider at what point you're sitting on a bunch of white elephants.

[Eric Trulson]

Hi John,

I'd be interested in looking at some of the press & casting equipment, the molds, and the batch chemicals.

I have some business out in western MA later in August (Around the 23rd-25th), so I could probably stop in then to check things out in person. PMing you about that now.

[Mike Kaplan]

How do you go about selling the glass formula?