Grofield Records Storage

(I wrote this up some years ago for a game, I suspect that this description will be useful for the current game I'm playing in. You can certainly use this for ANY abandoned warehouse you intend to use in a game of yours.

Desc: A largish concrete structure near the riverside area. The locks have been recently replaced and there are 3 loading bay doors on the backside of the building. The building has been tagged by the neighborhood grafitti artists, but even that has been haphazard and half-hearted. Some of the grafitti goes back to the 70's

Ownership: European Mafia types have a method for purchasing stocks in large diverse blocks called Omnibus accounts. This enables them opportunities to acquire controlling interests in various companies. Once a controlling interest has been acquired then usually dire things happen to the company in question. The current owner owns shares in a Omnibus shelf corporation.(based in switzerland) One of the 25 companies it owns has purchased a holding company of its own. ( in Des Moines, Iowa of all places.) That holding company owns Grofield Records storage and the paperwork necessary to trace it back to him/her/it/them, would take a crack team of forensic accountants 5 years and a case of pepto bismoll.

The first floor:

Entrance from the street is a pair of double doors with wired milk glass windows. The double doors open into a simple vestibule area with a pair of double doors on the other side. To the right is a simple reception area the size of a postage stamp. to the left is a narrow staircase that leads up to the actual office area on the second floor.

The second set of double doors opens into the warehouse proper. Long hanging fluorescent lights in various states of functionality provide the only illumination. The warehouse floor is a large open space once dominated by extremely large metal shelf units. All of those shelves are gone now. all the paper files they once housed dumped in the large dumpster out back. The back wall is dominated by 3 loading bay doors. (Only two currently work.) One has a drive ramp. Aside from the occasional mouse turd, The warehouse floor is clean. There is a large diesel forklift in the corner. It is currently not operational and the tires are flat anyway. 

The warehouse area itself is about 2 stories high as is the floor above this one.

to the left hand side there is a freight elevator. Right next to it is a bathroom and a water-cooler.

The Offices:

The Office area does not actually connect with the second floor of warehouse. It feature a small suite of small offices, a narrow open cubicle area, A middling sized office for the guy who runs the place. Most of the office furniture is old and decrepit. There is a small kitchen area with a single vending machine that hasn't been serviced in over 2 decades. Shockingly. The fridge still works just fine. The microwave and coffee maker however have gone home to jesus. The office area also has a small toilet area so that the office types don't have to go downstairs and share with the staff. 

The Basement:

The underground part of the building is only accessible via the freight elevator. It is not as extravagantly large as the rest of the place, it's ceiling is only about 8 feet high. But the central area of the warehouse is dominated by a series of iron cage cells that are set into the concrete floor and ceilings of the place. There are 6 cells in toto, used for security storage. each door has a shrouded combination lock. They aren't shim-able but you could conceivably open them if you had a stethoscope or heightened senses.(and a dot or two of Larceny)  

Needless to say, you could scream your lungs out down here and no one on the street would hear a thing.

Security:

There is a security system in place and working. All of the external door locks have been replaced and the front door have been re-enforced. The neighborhood has noticed that a new set of security lights have been installed with proximity sensors. The building still has an old school clangy bell security system that will go off if the doors are forced. and the sprinkler system still work pretty well. The building itself is manufactured almost entirely from re-bar and concrete slabs. As such, it is nearly fireproof. 

The Neighborhood:

Kind of unpleasant, since it's near riverside, a lot of the homes around are abandoned or just grimy and down at the heels. The neighborhood kids think the place is haunted. They don't even throw rocks at the windows.