All properties have to have insurance: hospitals, senior centers
and businesses where machinery is used. It can't be insurmountable.

I think the interest just went away or the place wasn't
big enough or something. I have no recollection if the
Do It Yourself Shop was a chain or a stand alone business. I
was a kid. We went there for the soda machine and the
name do it yourself shop sounded like all one word to me.

I see the idea not much different from a Senior Center: a
place to go and do stuff. The senior center here was made from
an old supermarket and it's one of the best projects in town:
reuse of a private property purchased by the city, architecturally
interesting (not a dump) and performs a function.