Friday, July 24, 2009

We're Moving The Store!

The deal was verbally finalized today! After beginning Modellbahn Ott Hobbies in 1983, we moved out our first store location in Boyertown in about 1987 and into the Gilbertsville Shopping Center. We stayed there about 2 years and moved into our present location, 1/2 mile away, in about 1989. We've been in our current location for just about 20 years and our building grew from 2000 sq. ft. into 4200 sq. ft. in 1993. In addition to the showroom, we had an 1800 sq. ft. room on our lower level where we had slot car tracks, storage and eventually war gaming with miniatures. The 2000 sq. ft. basement under the original store was used for storage. About 8200 sq.ft. total in both levels. We are moving 2 miles into what used to be the Tru-Glo (and formerly K-Milk) businesses next to a Final Results Fitness Center just off of Rt. 100 at Grosser Rd., one mile south of the Rt. 100/Rt. 73 interchange. We will occupy a space of roughly 11,000 sq. ft. It will allow us to have a 6000 sq. ft. showroom, a 2200 sq. ft. room for Indoor RC racing, an outdoor RC track, a large pond for RC boats plus more showroom and storage. There will also be the possibility to set up an RC Flying Field on the property. We're very excited about the changes we see in store for 2009 and beyond. We'll keep you updated.


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At Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 12:22:00 AM EDT , Blogger Unknown said...

Bill,

Congratulations on your move to new location. Hope you will have new 2009 Marklin items pretty soon.

 
At Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 8:17:00 PM EDT , Anonymous Adam said...

Sounds like a great move the Hobby Shop..I be looking forward to stopping in to check out the R/C fun.

 
At Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 6:37:00 PM EDT , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Bill,
This looks like a great opportunity for the store to expand, best of luck!

-Mike P. (Pat's former roommate)

 
At Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 1:17:00 PM EDT , Blogger Unknown said...

Bill I hope you will put up some photos of the new place ...

 
At Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 3:19:00 PM EDT , Blogger Modellbahn Ott Hobbies, Inc. said...

We have more photos on our Facebook page showing the interior partially cleaned up. We now have the air conditioning working so the hard labor shouldn't be so hot. We still plan to be out of our current location as of August 31st and expect to re-open during the first week of September.

 
At Friday, September 18, 2009 at 4:11:00 PM EDT , Blogger Unknown said...

Bill,
I'm glad to see that you are expanding the hobby shop. I hope this leads to more people getting into R/C or back to the hobby if they've been away for awhile. Are you also going to expand your inventory of R/C vehicles?

 
At Friday, September 18, 2009 at 5:30:00 PM EDT , Blogger Modellbahn Ott Hobbies, Inc. said...

Since the inside RC track will probably be best for 1/18th scale racing, we'll be adding that type of vehicle to our offerings. We have some now. For the rock climbing "track/course" we'll bring in more rock climbers also. It will just take some time to change what we stock in response to our customers' needs. We're always open to suggestions.

 

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