Grubb & Ellis|Coldstream Real Estate Advisors, Inc., has been hired to market for sale the family establishment known as Parker's Maple Barn, Gift Shop and Sugar House. The list price is $2.2 million and includes the real estate, business, equipment and fixtures. The property is situated on 18 acres, located in a country town on the Mass. border historically known as being the childhood home to "Uncle Sam", and is fully operational and in turnkey condition.
Parker's Maple Barn was opened as a simple sugar shack by the Parker Family in the late 1960s and has evolved into a very well known country restaurant with a gift shop and antique shop. Its sugar house still produces maple syrup following the old tradition of wood-fired evaporators. Group tours of the sugar house operation are available by appointment.
The restaurant is set in an 1800s dairy barn and silo and measures over 9,000 s/f. Antique cow stantions once used when milking are now integrated in many of the handmade tables. Parker's Maple Barn is also a venue for weddings, functions and special events, and can accommodate up to 150 guests at such occasions.
Having received top honors from a variety of media such as New Hampshire Magazine, The Phantom Gourmet, and New Hampshire Chronicle, Parker's remains a popular destination for school trips, tourists and locals alike.
Hugo Overdeput, CCIM, of Grubb & Ellis|Coldstream's Bedford office is the listing broker on behalf of Parker's owner, Ronald Roberts. According to Overdeput, "Ron has been a great steward of this venerable N.E. restaurant, gift shop and sugar house since 1986. His desire is to pass on to another proprietor the reins of this award winning establishment which, although having strong sales and regional customer appeal, has yet to reach its full business potential."