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Granny Goose Site has Buyer

OAKLAND-A bathtub maker is in escrow to purchase the snack maker's shuttered East Oakland facility for $6.5 million

By David Scholz | Updated on August 14, 2000

Sunrise Specialty Co., a maker of bathtubs and other Victorian-style plumbing fixtures, isin escrow to pay $6.5 million for 192,000-sf of buildings that make up the former Granny Goose manufacturing facility.

Bob Weinstein, president and chief executive officer of Sunrise, says he has been looking for months for an alternative to the company’s cramped, 21,000-sf quarters in Emeryville. “We had bathtubs stacked everywhere,” said Weinstein, who plans to have switched the company’s entire operation to the eight-acre site on 98th Street site by October.

Weinstein says finding the right space was a tricky task, as very few suitable properties are currently available in the Oakland industrial market. Looking for 60,000 sf initially, the Granny Goose plant seemed too large a facility at first blush, Weinstein said.

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