Almost 20 years after K-Mart left Sturgeon Bay, you will finally see the building full again. U-Haul of Door County looks to transform thousands of vacant square feet into interior storage space, a supplies service, and an outpost for rental services. The news comes five years after Tractor Supply Company took over a portion of the building for its own business. Turning large vacant buildings into interior storage space is a trend picking up steam in the region after E&I Investments did the same thing to a former Palmer Johnson facility in Sturgeon Bay and former ShopKos in Suamico, Marinette, and Marshfield have also been converted. Sturgeon Bay Planner and Zoning Administrator Chris Sullivan-Robinson is happy the building will get used.

While the exterior elements of the new business need to still get approved, Robinson believes work transforming the building into U-Haul of Door County is already taking place on the inside.