Another dealership bites the dust! CA.

Recession claims Golden Gate Harley-Davidson
Email|Print| Share|Save|LicenseGolden Gate Harley-Davidson has closed its Corte Madera store, ending its run and shuttering the last H-D dealership in Marin County, Calif.
The franchisee closed its Novato store in November and consolidated operations to Corte Madera. That location closed Tuesday.
The company has posted a letter thanking customers on its Web site. The letter reads:
“Well, that’s that. It’s over. We’re done. We did everything we could to keep things going, but in the end, the economy finally did us in.
Although we’ve outperformed most of our larger competitors in sales volume, unfortunately we simply didn’t have deep enough pockets or the available credit to ride out the economic downturn.
We would like to thank all our loyal customers for their continued friendship and support over the years and we apologize we won’t be here for you in the future. We’ve enjoyed every minute, and we’re honored to have had the opportunity to provide service to some of the nicest, toughest, coolest, baddest, craziest, smartest, wildest, good lookingest, not to mention GREATEST group of customers anywhere! We will miss you.
For those who have their bikes here, we will be contacting you shortly to make arrangements to reunite you with your machine.
See you on the road.”
Some of the Corte Madera store’s 15 employees have already been hired at other area motorcycle shops, Jon Magana, sales manager at the Corte Madera store, told the Marin Independent-Journal.
Workers were clearing out inventory at the 15,000-square-foot store Wednesday. The dealership had access to one of the largest inventories of new motorcycles in Northern California.
"There is a chance there will be a new Harley dealer in Marin again soon," says Magana, adding the Motor Co. has been negotiating to keep a store in the county.