By Mike Hazlip–
The long-vacant building at 6422 Tupelo Drive is seeing new activity as BidRL.com occupies part of the building.
BidRL.com owner Andrey Sprikha said he plans to use the space as a warehouse for the online auction liquidation company. Customers bid on items displayed on the BidRL website and pick them up at the warehouse. Customers can pay online or pay at the pick-up location.
“This is an online auction where everything starts at $1. Everything that you can get, Amazon returns, Target, all those,” he told The Sentinel.
Sprikha said he plans to hold the first auction in about a week. The BidRL website lists a Citrus Heights location, but no items were displayed as of press time Wednesday.
The remaining space is slated to be a Falling Prices, according to Amir Razavi of NPR Associates Incorporated, an investor in the building. Falling Prices is a discount retailer with six locations throughout the greater Sacramento area, Folsom and Tracy.
Razavi said he is actively looking for new tenants. He says the building is in good shape, with newer equipment on the roof.
The building is divided into separate tenant spaces, one 10,000-square-foot space, and another 20,000-square-foot area, and Razavi hopes to attract a restaurant to occupy the front space with a patio.
Commercial real estate agent John Newton of Newmark told The Sentinel that the building’s former owner, Rite Aid, filed permits with the city more than 20 years ago that were never finalized. Razavi said discovering the unfinished permits during escrow was a surprise and he is now working with the city to finalize the permits and make the site ready for new tenants.
