Studio Klawock Realty

Studio Klawock Realty

Goose Creek Industrial

Great opportunity!

$975,000 - Wood Products Manufacturing Enterprise

This is a tremendous business and lifestyle opportunity!!!

Visitors enjoying the recreational opportunities of Prince of Wales Island often tell us “We love it here! But we have to go back to our jobs…” It’s difficult enough to find jobs in areas such as this, and even more difficult to find a business opportunity that affords a living way beyond a job!

Here’s your chance to stay on in our pristine area, owning a business that thrives on the island’s renewable natural resource of timber, and to hunt & fish & boat whenever the thought strikes.

Let me paint you a picture:

Prince of Wales Island... The third largest island in the United States, covered with temperate rainforest, red cedar, yellow cedar, spruce and hemlock, top quality timbers.

A local forest service who wants to help local businesses, hundreds of acres of state land and timber sales, lots of top quality wood available at good prices...

A blossoming tourism industry, lots of people moving up from the lower 48, retirees and those who want to "get away from it all" or who want to get away from hot summers. People who want to live their dreams of fishing, hunting and enjoying the wilderness. People who want a cabin in the forest, the Alaskan Experience...

And here is your chance to give it to them!

Wood Products Manufacturing. Top of the line equipment. A top quality product. A mill that is set up so well that National Geographic has been out to film it and bus loads of Forest Service workers visit it as a prime example of how a mill can be run. A mill with the potential to provide a wide area with cabin packages, log siding and lots, lots more. And this is your chance to step into a top-of-the-line set-up, and tap into a blossoming market. We think it is a real money maker. Look into it for yourself and you will see why.

Wood Products Manufacturing is located on 7+ acres in Goose Creek, just off the main highway system near Thorne Bay. It is a developing wood products manufacturing enterprise, and includes a sawmill, a state of the art plant, and a residence.

The sawmill assures the manufacturing plant of a regular supply of quality wood for producing cabin logs for cabins and homes, as well as interior & exterior siding and decking. The plant is capable of producing a range of products, including the very popular 6x6" D-Log.

The sawmill is set up for a one man operation, though two workers make it easier. And there’s plenty of quality timber available! In fact, visitors constantly comment on the high quality of the island’s wood, compared to what they get in the Lower 48. The mill can produce 4,000 board feet of product per 8 hour shift.

The manufacturing plant is one of only two on the island that produces kiln-dried wood, economically using waste wood in an outdoor furnace that also heats the 6” concrete slab in the 7800 sq. ft. plant. Add the only Pinheiro 1000 planer, matcher, molder in SE Alaska, and the resulting product stands alone in its class in quality. It is only 7 miles from weekly barge shipping to anywhere in Southeast (or elsewhere). This is a one or two man operation. Each of the two kilns can dry up to 12,000 board feet per load, with an average of 10 days to dry. The planer can plane 6,000 board feet per hour. All the equipment is in top condition, new or very close to it!

Regarding timber availability, kiln-owners are eligible for preference bidding on timber sales. For a plant such as this, timber can be purchased under non-bid, negotiated contracts with the government. The on-hand current log inventory estimated at 650,000 board feet.

If you want to be involved in a quality product, you won’t find a better opportunity at this price in Southeast Alaska!

Details and pictures follow, but you should be aware that the owner is motivated to sell and willing to work with a purchaser to assure success. There’s no blue sky here, just asset value! Plus owner-financing on some of the purchase price to a qualified buyer.

The ongoing purchase of Southeast Alaska properties for summer recreational purposes provides a ready market for these log cabin products.

And you can do it! Or so the owner says... He thinks that anyone with good carpentry skills could do it, but we feel he is underrating his abilities. Apparently the machines do most of the hard work themselves. You mainly just have to coordinate it.

Anyway, we really think it is a fantastic deal. From our real estate perspective we see a big need for this sort of business on the island. And here it is!

Just look at the stunning finished product!

Wood Products Manufacturing

Thorne Bay, Alaska

Building:

PBS Metal building 60’ x 130’ (7,800 sq. ft.), insulated, 6” heated concrete slab, overhead mercury vapor lights, 16’ x 24’ roll up door. 24’ x 130’ (3,120 sq. ft.) outside covered storage (metal building extension). Frame addition 24’ x 36’, concrete slab, two story, 1,728 sq. ft.

Kilns:

Northland Kiln, 24’ x 25’, constructed of aluminum/foam/aluminum, housing two kilns, each capable of drying 12,000 board feet per load.

Wood Furnace: Central Classic, 250,000 BTU, Dual Fuel ready. Heats kilns & plant with waste wood product. Fill once a day in summer, twice a day in winter.

Saw Mill:

Extremely well set-up Mobile Dimension mill for cutting up to 26 ft logs, with live deck, 40 ft. green chain from main saw to chop saw, chop saw for up to 8” x 12”, 75 ft. green chain from chop saw for sorting. Buyer could consider leasing this operation out and buying cut lumber from operator.

Equipment:

Barco 550 Log Loader, for sorting logs as they come in.

Electric Log Loader (stationary), for loading sawmill live deck

Huff 100 Loader, for moving logs around

Hyster Forklift (18,000#), lumber movement

Jefford Profile Grinder, new for grinding heads of planer

Pinheiro 1000 Planer, matcher, molder, less than 100 hrs, state of the art versatility.

Hyster Forklift (10,000#-warehouse), lumber movement inside

Central Dual Fuel Wood Furnace, economical heating

House:

40’ x 60’ unfinished but livable, septic currently being hooked up, rain catchment water supply. Sweeping view of mountains and property, building sites for new home on property.

Property:

Lot 18, Block 6, Goose Creek Industrial Subdivision

7.33 acres, 319,322.4 sq. ft.

Three levels of rocked area:

Bottom – saw mill, approx. 1.5 acres flat

Middle – manufacturing, approx. 1.5 acres flat, with added area for burning & fire suppression pond.

Top – home, approx. ¾ acre flat.

Manufacturing Plant