I would like to know if you ever were able to keep them off the goal. In my neighborhood the neighborhood kids broke our backboard. I am assuming using a some kind of gun or rocks. The police stated without us knowing or rather have proof who has done this, there is nothing that can be done. I am furious. Now, my son, who is 10 and plays on three different teams, is not able to practice. He loves the game. I will be purchasing a new goal, installing cameras, post private property, and write Not permitted to be used unless you are given written permission from the owner of the basketball goal across the backboard. Bottom line, if you are not given permission, you should not be on anyone's property. For some reason, these kids, feel they can do what they want, when they want. It is quite aggravating and very wrong, especially when you spoke to the parents in the neighborhood.

We built basically half the structure you’re talking about as a workshop. Without the plumbing. Vaulted only 1/4 of it for the auto lift clearance. 62K in today’s money with us doing all the labor but the excavating and slab pour. A 60x60 square will have a lot of issues with roof size and shape. Square isn’t good. Rectangle is good. A big square will need steel trusses and supports. A 30 x 120 or something rectangular that works within a standard inexpensive wooden truss widths will be a lot less expensive. Planning in a bathroom was something that we really wanted. We were not allowed to connect to the existing septic. Sewer was available, but the whole property would have been forced to connect. That was 40K from a plumber and not allowed to be DIY. (My neighbor had to redo theirs, and it was 35K) So to do half of your projected project would have been 100K here in a low labor cost market with mostly DIY. You are planning on climate control? No wood basketball floors without it. Or woodshop. Ours is insulated well enough to not need a large system, but that too had its costs. Insulation requires a finished drywall surface for fire prevention issues. No HVAC without insulation, or you’re trying to heat the outdoors as my grandmother would say. You are planning on cooking ventilation if the grill is under roof? You’ll asphyxiate without it. We just pull the grill out to the driveway between the house and shop which serves as a patio. I don’t think 100K will be enough to do this. You can plan it in stages though, if you plan it correctly. The big wild card is the plumbing issue. Hire a plumber to consult now about the siting and connecting issues, before you do anything else. If allowed to connect, the existing plumbing could limit where you place the barn. Good luck!

You would need to strip the polish off.

The mail-order tree business in general has declined quite a bit Definitely. Everything horticulture related has declined in my opinion...in this country at least. I've already started plenty of threads documenting the decline and loss of mail order businesses. Local nurseries aren't what they used to be. Take the once legendary Styers in SE PA. 20 years ago you could probably have gotten 5-10 cultivars of European beech there, and plenty of other rarities. I remember speaking with employees who clearly knew and loved plants. These days, it's a trendy restaurant and housewares boutique that happens to sell outdoor plants LOL. It doesn't even feel as 'horticultural' as it did 3-4 years ago. Every time I stop in (and these days, only because I happen to be in the area for some other reason) it seems less and less a garden center.