By REBECCA CRONISER
Observer-Dispatch
Posted Jan 01, 2010 @ 04:49 PM
ROME —
Just $1.9 million. That’s what is needed to start the bidding Jan. 19-20 in the online auction for the former Home Depot building in Rome.
It could be a deal for the property, which is assessed at nearly $7.2 million.
But finding someone interested in the building is going to be tough, officials say.
“I don’t see it going,” said Rome Mayor James Brown. “It’s tough the way the economy is. Nobody is really expanding at this point in time.”
The giant orange and beige retail store on Rome-Taberg Road has sat empty since it closed in the summer of 2008.
The store wasn’t open for long in Rome. The 112,940-square-foot building — with 19,646-square-feet of outdoor side yard — opened in 2003.
