I was visiting some friends in St. Cloud to attend a car auction this past weekend. Several times i've been down there, going West on 192 and pass a big building with a Mercury Marine sign in front. I was wondering what Mercury does there? Anyone know? Just this past weekend, it looked like there was a real estate sign in front of it that I had not noticed before.

This might be it: http://www.mercurymarine.com/st._cloud_fl Anyone know the story? I know the old Lake X was right around St. Cloud.

Just curious.

Used to be the dry pits/ registration when we raced there. They made some small parts?. Great memories rolling through inspections there!

It Was An Outboard Classroom At Onetime I Think

Unfortunately, it's nothing too exciting, the St. Cloud plant mostly does electronics. I know a few people that work there. If you were to continue East past the St. Cloud plant about 10 miles and hung a left on Old Melbourne highway you would run into the old "Lake X" site.

(Yes, the link you have above is the same place.)

Joker tell us about your memories form about 10 miles down the road from there at Lake X!

Best thing that ever happened to me!

I spent two weeks at the lake in the 90's

Is there a Howard Johnson's still there with all the Offshore pictures on the wall in the bar?

I know!

Actually, the St. Cloud facility was Kieikhaefer Mercurys one & only parts distribution warehouse for Mercruiser & Mercury Outboard Dealers for the entire southeast region, since it was first built in the 50's. They stopped using it as dealer & export parts support, if memory serves, in the late 80's when Mercury's much larger Georgia Distribution Center took over. Since then, as with all of Mercurys real-estate, they try to retain these properties & use them for others purposes. Sorry to hear its now on the market.