#longaberger building

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Longaberger Building, Newark, Ohio, 1997

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[doctorfriend79]

Longaberger Building - Newark, Ohio

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I want you to know, as an Ohioan, I can assure you, this IS the most important place in Ohio

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Passed it on the highway a few weeks ago and took this as I drove by.

The former Longaberger Baskets headquarters is abandoned in Ohio.

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Ohio's famous ‘Big Basket’ building in Newark, long the seven-story corporate headquarters of the Longaberger Co., a maker of baskets, pottery, and other household items.

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The Longaberger Building

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The Big Basket Building in Newark, Ohio, the former headquarters of basket manufacturer The Longaberger Company.

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NBBJ / Longaberger Basket Building / 1997 / Ohio, the United States

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https://dresdenbuzz.com/2019/10/25/hundreds-tour-former-longaberger-corporate-office-building/

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GODDESS pieces hang outside the former Longaberger headquarters in Newark Ohio.

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If there’s one thing Dave Longaberger could do well, it was dream big. If there’s another thing he could do better, it was making those dreams come true. He thought so big he took his family’s basket-making business he founded in 1973 in Dresden, Ohio, and turned it into a Fortune 500 company. In 1997, he opened the company’s headquarters in Newark, Ohio, a $30-million-dollar, 180,000-square-foot, seven-story office building known as The Big Basket. This is an awesome example of novelty architecture – where the building resembles the product the business sells. When I visited last July, I was all alone. Longaberger had long ago left the building, and plans for a hotel conversion fell through. The property’s fate is tied up in litigation. In the late 1990s, however, such a state would have been unthinkable. Longaberger had tens of thousands of associates selling millions of baskets a year, in a business model described as a cross between Tupperware and Amway. Collectors could hardly stop at one, and in 2000, Longabergers served as “swag baskets” at the Academy Awards. That year was the company’s peak, with a billion dollars in sales, though nobody knew it was the beginning of the end. The next year, 9/11 happened, and the economy was jolted into recession. Tastes changed. A decade later, sales were down 90 percent. The company left family ownership, and by 2016, bailed on the Big Basket. In 2018, Chapter 11 bankruptcy – where the idea is to reorganize – turned into Chapter 7, where the idea is to go out of business. Longaberger, a company that stirred such pride here, was no more. The intellectual assets were purchased the next year, and you can still buy Longaberger products, or spend hours on eBay browsing for them. Explaining the company’s collapse can be bewildering. For many, it’s simple: They trace it to the 1999 death of the company’s driving force, Dave Longaberger, who was just 64. The Big Basket serves as a tribute to him, and to the pride so many took in making, selling, and buying the baskets. Yes, it’s empty, and that’s sad, but it’s such a joyful creation, you can’t help but smile. This basket is one for the bucket list. #retrologist (at Longaberger Basket, Newark Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiqQI2yOwoU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[Image description The Longaberger building which is shaped like a picnic basket]

[doctorfriend79]

The Longaberger Basket Building - Newark, Ohio

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Hi hello I’ve seen the basket building in-person many times. I don’t live too far from it. It’s for sale/lease right now. It used to be the administrative headquarters for the longaberger basket company, but has since ceased all operations. The baskets are still highly collectable here in Ohio but idk about anywhere else. There’s your basket trivia for the day:)

AHHH I LOVE THIS!! I would love to see it in person one day and maybe get a basket myself! I hope you’re having a wonderful day. 💓

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Today in unnecessary destinations: the old longaberger building.

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shoutout to the fucking massive longaberger basket building in buttfuck ohio