14208 Cabot Trail, Chéticamp

Description

The building is in a superb location on the Cabot Trail, on the outskirts of Cheticamp. It has a huge central space with cathedral ceiling, an ice cream parlour, offices, storage rooms and living space. An extraordinary amount of parking area surrounds the building, with simple access from the highway. Flora's has been a legend to residents and visitors alike. Started in the 1950's as a general store the shop has grown into what it is today, a fixture on the approach to Cheticamp for over 60 years. To be clear, this is now an asset sale: Flora's - the business - is not part of the sale. The business name, the stock, the website etc. are not included. The main shop space is 60' x 30' under a dramatic cathedral ceiling with large timbers, wood paneling and two skylights. One end of this space has a 20 x 40 upstairs room, and a bump-out includes two sets of washrooms, making a total of 2,800 sq ft. of retail space currently used by the shop. The shop is bright, airy and easy to walk around. The ice cream parlour occupies 600 sq ft. The remainder of the ground floor of that section, 480 sq ft, has an office, storage room, kitchenette and washroom. The upstairs at this end of the building - the same 1,080 sq ft. as downstairs - are a number of rooms now primarily storage but usable for living space, as has been the case in the past when a family lived here. The building has two septic systems, two public washrooms and one private one. Water is from a shared system, and there is water treatment equipment. Tank and pressure tank and pressure pump are both recent. The utility building in the rear includes a 20kW generator that can power the entire building, including the ice cream parlour. Heat is all electric: baseboards and 2 heat pumps (with three heads, a fourth could be added). Windows are Polytech, installed in 2010. The roof and skylights were done in 2007. Siding is cedar shingles, installed in 2010 and painted - and completely repainted in 20/21. Fibre op.