Would this be a good location?
An arts school. Idk if this is what it's called in other places but basically a college for kids to go and learn more hands on stuff. Building houses, furniture, sewing, stuff like that. I remember one year in highschool I went to one and you had like the normal building where I assume classes are at. Then you have the gift shop where student made items are sold and across from that there was a building. We only went into a few of the classrooms but it was filled with domestic sewing machines and full of all kinds of fabric, materials and buttons and stuff. Another room and the industrial stuff with those large cutters that cut layers of fabric at once and the large sewing machines.
Idk if it would be a good place to like or keep your group. There is one behind my house that's not as advanced as the previous one mentioned but I've never been over there so idk
Also places that keep food shipment. When I was younger my mom worked with this place for a bit where certain things were shipped there for companies. Fruits kept in large freezers, huge crates of food like ramen and cup soups. I only ever went to the food section because that's what my mom worked with but passing some other sites had like large tanks for like waste and stuff. Toilets and just home stuff.
Brought that up because they were all in the same area. Government owned property, huge area mostly concrete though. Loads of buildings filled with freezers and stuff. Large walls and hard to get through gates without security.
Also in the same food trip we were shown this other building (same place btw) that independent businesses could go and rent and use the items. Idk how effective they would be during the apocalypse but they had everything for smaller scale food processing. Large freezers, those things that crush food into power. Stuff like that. Dehydrator. There was a section for jewelry and clothing making as well so rock tumbler and a lot of different kinds of art supplies that can be put to other uses.
There was also this room where you could make essential oils. I don't remember the details about the room but I remember relating it to what I was doing in chemistry class at the time where it was like separation of mixtures or something. The room was dark and the floors were like the kinds you shouldn't run on because you will fall. Large machines that got really hot.
Yeah its long sorry I was just thinking this place would be good. Even some of the smaller arts schools might be useful.