LAYTONVILLE CA., 5/22/23 – The building that houses Geiger’s Long Valley Market in Laytonville is for sale. The property was listed on May 19 for $3,583,000.
W Real Estate oversees the listing and is promoting the property as a “tremendous opportunity to own over 14,500 sq ft of prime real estate in the heart of Laytonville.” The listing includes the retail building, parking lot and a storage building.
According to the real estate listing, Geiger’s Long Valley Market has ten years remaining on its lease and that “current owners will continue to operate the business on a sale-leaseback basis.” According to filings with the California Secretary of State, Michael Maciel and Michael Braught are listed as owners.
Geiger’s was founded in Laytonville in 1945 as a small general store. It’s the only full-service grocery store in a 25-mile radius. The sale of the building comes as Geiger’s prepares to open a market in the former Superette building in Hopland. The building was purchased by Sonoma County developer Ken Molinaro in 2021, and the grocery is also owned by Maciel and Braught.
In an interview with KZYX in 2022, Molinaro said the Geiger’s Hopland Market will be “like Big John’s in Healdsburg, Oliver’s, those kinds of markets,” and that most of the products will be organic. Molinaro also shared that the Hopland location will serve locals, while also targeting tourists. He expects Hopland to “become bigger and…more popular” with visitors in the upcoming years and described Hopland as “far different from the community in Laytonville.” As of today, no date of opening has been provided for the Hopland location.
While the build-out continues in Hopland, the Mendocino Voice has seen videos and photographs taken by customers of empty store shelves and spoiled produce at the Laytonville location.
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We took a beef there for cut and wrap and did not get back what we asked for. They asked us what cuts we wanted and we got back totally different they also said the car us was 900 pounds exact hanging and that’s not true either. When confronted about it they said then go somewhere else. We even took cut sheets from other places to show proof they were lying. At the end of it all they said they would do our next one for free. How about no thank you. You already stole and didn’t follow instructions.
I love the store it has not only hardware that I sometimes need but excellent deli and I’ve always had good luck at the butcher’s counter kind of pricey but what do you expect is the only game in town
William Borland I’m not talking about the meat counter I’m talking about we brought our own ranch slaughtered beef in to be cut and wrapped the way we want. And they didn’t do it. Going and buying straight from the counter is totally diffrent.
It’s like an apocalyptic ghost town in there. I’m expecting a tumbleweed to drift by next time I’m in there looking for something they don’t have anymore. Pretty sad.
The shelves are totally empty. I went in there last week just to look and a flipping can of heinz pork and beans was 8.00. I go to willits or ukiah to do my grocery shopping now. I think the laytonville store will be closing.
I feel bad for the employees. However the man that runs the meat dept is a bonified jerk. I took some beef in to be cut and wrapped and I’m positive I got shorted. Not only volume but choice cuts. There was no weight or packing list recorded. When I asked why not. I was told and I quote “take it somewhere else then”. So that I will do. And I say to that jerk. You reap what you sew. I take my several thousand dollars a year elsewhere!!!!