1417 S Kansas AVE Investors! Utilize this downtown commercial building to generate activity and foster community pride by offering essential services such as food & beverage, grocery, pharmacy, apparel, personal care, barber shop, salon, home furnishings, hardware, bookstore, & art or recording studio, while offering residential or rental options upstairs and the basement. This storefront offers a great opportunity to rejuvenate downtown Topeka through the attraction & nurturing of creative building uses that add life to the downtown while serving residents with goods & services. The limestone/brick building was formerly a grocery store, Mel's Tavern, & currently a vacuum sales & service store. It features two upstairs apartments, each with two bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen & living room. There was a fire in the upstairs apartment in 2020, and it's been vacant ever since. The apartments need to be cleaned out, as well as lots of vacuum parts & supplies throughout. New electrical service panels & breaker box, grounded copper water lines, and PVC sewer line installed in the basement after the fire requiring a city inspection to come up to code. Original hard wood floors underneath the carpet. The building is solid with thick walls but requiring a lot of sweat equity to make it habitable & marketable. Topeka Vacuum operates M, W, & F from 10 am - 3 pm. This is not a Drive-by. You need to see the inside to be impressed by its potential. Schedule a tour of this building at the corner of 15th & Kansas Ave. Sold AS IS.