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A former Badcock & More Home Furniture store in Fort Myers is on the market for sale or for lease. The store is at 1750 N. Tamiami Trail near Pine Island Road. According to a listing from SRS Real Estate Partners, the 13,563-square-foot building sits on 2.23 acres and comes with 48 parking spaces. Lee County property records show the building is owned by an Orlando area investor who paid $1.72 million for it in 2022. A marketing flyer for the property doesn’t disclose a sale or lease price, asking anyone interested to reach out to the brokers — Chris Stewart and Jacob Rasnick. The store is a casualty of Conn Inc.’s ill-fated purchase of the 120-year-old Polk County-based W.S. Badcock in late 2023. The Houston furniture and appliance retailer bought the local chain only to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy 218 days later and close all of its stores. Badcock was founded in 1904 in Mulberry and was family operated until November 2021, when it sold for $580 million to Los Angeles-based Franchise Group Inc.