Office and art supply store with building

An office, art and school supply store with a full digital print shop, in continuous business for over fifty years. It was incorporated in 1979 and the current owner took over in 2005, since when the retail range, the print shop’s capabilities and the gross revenue have all grown.

The building comes with it: a historic three-storey structure of about 5,700 square feet on a 0.126-acre lot on Golden’s main shopping street, beside Spirit Square, the timber-framed pedestrian bridge and the riverfront walkway, with four employee parking spaces.

The ground floor holds the retail store, the print shop, warehousing and receiving. The upper two floors are essentially unused — and that is the largest piece of unrealised value here. The listing puts conversion at four or more apartments generating at least $5,000 to $6,000 a month in long-term rent at autumn 2025 prices, more as boutique short-term rentals.

The retail side runs office supplies, furniture and some electronics, printer inks, toners and drums, a full art supply range, back-to-school packs made up for each grade and school in the area, and custom rubber stamps. The print shop runs a Xerox Versant 280 digital press with its finishing units: photocopying to 13x19", printing to 13x47", stock to 400gsm, scanning, photo printing, and full production work — bound manuals, full-bleed promotional booklets, weather-resistant custom booklets for ski patrol and forestry, business cards, art cards by the tens of thousands for local artists, posters, multi-part invoice books, numbered event and raffle tickets. Finishing covers trimming, creasing, perforating, hole-punching, stapling, cornering, laminating up to 25 inches, and coil and twin-wire binding.

Gross revenue is in the region of $500,000 at about a 55% gross margin, with net working capital around $120,000 and operating cash flow around $30,000 a year as a five-year median.

Three staff run it including the owner, all long-term employees of more than ten years. The owner works three to five days a week and is willing to train and support a successor for an agreed period. Golden sits at the junction of Highway 1 and Highway 95, in the middle of five of Canada’s mountain national parks, with the foot traffic that brings.

Fixtures, fittings and equipment are included. The digital production printer is leased from Xerox with its service and supply agreement. Inventory is assessed at the time of sale and is not in the price.