What Should Go Here: Wonder-Hostess Bakery Building

The now-vacant Wonder-Hostess Bakery Outlet is in a primo location on Airport Boulevard between Highway 1 and the Freedom Boulevard corridor.

The building, which has been empty for months, is one of the first commercial properties people pass as they enter Watsonville from the highway. It has a large parking lot and a stoplight to help motorists navigate into the business.

And it's for lease.

Hostess shuttered 33 bakeries, 565 distribution centers, approximately 5,500 delivery routes and 570 bakery outlet stores, including locations in Watsonville and Santa Cruz, in November. About 18,500 jobs were lost throughout the company.

The Watsonville location is collecting dust and graffiti right now, but it could be developed into something that could support visitors to the city or nearby businesses—the airport, nearby businesses such as Fox Shox, the hospital or the surrounding neighborhood.

We're Wonder-ing what could go there?

In the past, Patch readers have given impassioned feedback on if Watsonville needs another gas station , what the old Gottschalks building downtown should become and how a vacant lot near the Red Roof Inn could be developed.

So tell us, what do you think should happen with this vacant storefront? So let your creative juices flow and tell us in comments.