By now you’ve all heard that Murky Coffee’s Capitol Hill location has been shuttered after the city seized the coffee shop thanks to owner Nick Cho failing to pay more than $425,000 in sales tax to the city. The building’s landlord has since evicted the coffee shop, so it won’t be reopening. Today the Post’s D.C. Wire blog brings word that the entire contents of the shop are being auctioned off by the D.C. government.

According to a legal notice published earlier this week, the tax office would like to sell all of Murky’s assets as a whole and bids will start at $10,000. The highest bidder will have 24 hours to make out a certified or cashier’s check payable to the D.C. Treasurer. No personal checks will be accepted, according to the notice.

The items for sale include multiple stainless steel espresso machines, a counter dishwasher with a built in booster heater, and many sealed bags of organic and nonorganic coffee beans, according to the Post.

If you’ve got access to $10,000 in cash, this sounds like a pretty good opportunity to start your own coffee shop with little fuss for a rock bottom price. All the items are still at the store, so it stands to reason the building’s owner might be amenable to a ready made tenant. We’ll be interested to see if an entrepreneur steps forward to start a new business out of Murky’s ashes, or if the city ends up having to sell the items off piece by piece. The auction items will be on view on Tuesday, April 15 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and on Friday, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. at 660 Pennsylvania Avenue SE.

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