RM Bacon has a perfect new home on South Street

“Everything happens for a reason,” said Mike Bacon, standing at the entrance of his state of the art 5,000 square foot business office, garage and repair shop on South Street in Hoosick. It was almost two years ago he got a call that there was a damaging fire at his former Spicer Road location. Bacon took what was a business setback and used it as an opportunity to develop the 100 acre property he owned on South Street. “We needed space for equipment and expansion,” he said. “And this was the ideal spot.” It was an opportunity for him to build the operation he always dreamed of building in the town where he grew up, where he started his logging and excavation business. [private]”It’s centrally located to everything,” he added. The property has enabled R.M. Bacon LLC not only to continue to serve its existing customers but also to expand into more lines of business such as large scale firewood processing, mulch, sand, gravel, top soil and other aggregate production and distribution. And the views are spectacular!

There is a big black and white sign on South Street indicating the business location. However, no sign of the business is visible from the road. “We worked very hard with the architect to do that,” said Bacon. Drive up the dirt road, and it is a different world. On one side of the road there are salt sheds, huge sand and gravel piles, wood piles in various stages and equipment. On the opposite side is the super-sized building he and his crew built themselves. The 14 foot overhead doors allow plenty of space for the heavy equipment to enter. While there is a variety of big equipment at work on the top of the hill at various times, it is unobtrusive to the residents down the road. “We’ve checked,” he said. “You can’t hear the backup alarms on the heavy equipment [used up here] down on South Street.”

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