Currently in a 32' x 40' shop with 13 foot ceiling on our property. May have to go to a retail/industrial location by end of October as the neighbor complained back in June and got the county on us. Have since smoothed things over with the neighbor, but once the county is on you...gotta comply. We are on an R-5 (rural 5 acre) and code says your a bldg. used for business must be 85 feet from property line....and we're about 30 feet. So, now have to see if we can get a variance. However, getting an industrial location may be best bet after all as we can then have more employees when the time comes (currently allowed only 1 or 3 depending on how you interpret the code).
Yup, now moving this week to an industrial location. Previous tenant put a pile o'money in this place, so we get to reap the benefits. Funny thing is we actually know the previous tenants, but didn't know this was there place immediately. Normally these particular bldgs are just a shell and a bathroom. This one is complete with front reception area, crapload of cabinets, office space, "clean" room, kitchen, loft that can be used as additional work area, tankless hot water heater, professional network cabling, drywall, etc. Plus it has a large roll up door, about 12'w x 16'h I'd guess. Main floor space is about 2180, plus upstairs loft area is approx. 700SF or so. It also has 3-phase power for when I get that CNC ;-). Kinda scarey, kinda exciting.
