The building that once housed one of Bangor’s longest operating businesses is for sale.

The former Fairmount Hardware, located at 569 Hammond St., is listed for $1.25 million and has been on the market for about a month, real estate agent Paul Cook said. There’s been significant interest in the 18,500-square-foot property, he said.

The store closed this spring after the death of longtime owner Sheldon Hartstone.

Cook is a 50% owner of the property, after he bought it with business partners in 2017. Fairmount Hardware operated rent-free there in the years since, allowing Hartstone to keep running the more than 70-year-old business, Cook said.

Harstone, who died Jan. 8 at 90 years old , took over the hardware store that his father opened in 1952. He and his siblings grew up helping

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