Giant picnic basket for sale for $5 million.

[Rain Man]

It can also be used as an office building, apparently.

http://gizmodo.com/unsellable-196-fo...ium=socialflow



Unsellable 196-Foot Picnic Basket Marked Down to $5 Million

According to some, the future of architecture is wood, but in Newark, Ohio, the future has already arrived—in the form of big, dumb picnic basket that’s also an office building no one will buy.

First put on the market 18 months ago for $7.5 million, the (sadly stucco-based) former headquarters of struggling basketmaker Longaberger is now available for a mere $5 million, Bloomberg reports. Despite the steal of a price, however, listing agent Michael Guagenti says he’s had trouble selling the building, for some reason.

“It’s a very challenging building,” Guagenti told the site. “We have had a couple [offers] but nothing that materialized.”

According to The Columbus Dispatch, the building’s unique design came about 20 years ago, well, about how you’d expect, really:

After months of wrangling with architects who had created designs that were merely suggestive of a basket, the colorful, quotable [founder Dave] Longaberger stormed out of a meeting, grabbed one of the company’s medium-sized baskets, came back in, put it on the conference room table and said, “Make it look exactly like that,” said Brenton Baker, director of communications and special initiatives and a longtime employee.

So they did.
Even with its highly specialized exterior, Guagenti thinks the building has a lot of potential, noting, “There’s nothing baskety inside.”

“[Y]ou could take the handles off,” Guagenti told Bloomberg. “I’m sure a good architect could come up with some paint scheme to make it look not like a basket.”

[Bowser]

It better have about 50 million dollars inside of it.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

I think they said it cost $32 million to build

[ptlyon]

Holy shit Toto, you've grown

[KC_Lee]

Any Yogi Bear sightings in the area?

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

If you took the handles off it would really be a nice looking building.

[The Franchise]

It probably has more to do with the fact that it's located in Ohio.

[Rain Man]

Apparently the building is hard to sell because the previous inhabitants were all eaten by gigantic ants.

[scho63]

That Longaberger basket shit was some scam. My friends wives and moms bought many of that overpriced crap and stuck scented pine cones in them. What a waste of money!

[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by KC_Lee

Any Yogi Bear sightings in the area?

Yogi's dead.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

If you took the handles off it would really be a nice looking building.

Yep, yank off the handles and paint it a stone-ish color and it's just fine.

[Scorp]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

Yep, yank off the handles and paint it a stone-ish color and it's just fine.

or leave the handles and use marketing as the steepest most deadliest slide?

[Sorter]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

Yep, yank off the handles and paint it a stone-ish color and it's just fine.

This uh...is not terrible.

Might be your finest post on here.

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by scho63

That Longaberger basket shit was some scam. My friends wives and moms bought many of that overpriced crap and stuck scented pine cones in them. What a waste of money!

agree x 1000. Most things that people think will be collectible and valuable are pieces of shit.

Longaberger baskets
Beanie Babies
Precious Moments
Bobble Heads

I have three boxes of Boys Bears and Angels. They were purchased for about 25 each when my MIL was sick. They are worthless now and taking up space. Two boxes got infested by ants at the brother in laws cabin. They had to be thrown away.

[gblowfish]

I no longer do acid, but if I were to consider ever doing acid again, I'd do it at the Precious Moments Chapel in Carthage, MO. Talk about a freak out....