In 2008, an entrepreneur bought the building with plans to transform it into a restaurant and installed a concession stand.
A developer bought the space with plans to construct a mixed-use development.
However, other players in addition to Renaissance are buying properties with plans to renovate.
El Ad bought the hotel with plans of adding residential and commercial sections.
The Fages bought the adobe with plans to restore and preserve it.
The city bought the Harlem building with plans to turn it into a tuberculosis hospital, but that project went nowhere.
A commercial land developer bought the land with plans to develop it into a shopping center.
Houses have been bought by local builders with plans to restore them, though in many such cases very little work is actually done.
He and a law school friend from Jackson had bought the cabin two years earlier with modest plans to make small improvements.
One bought two units with plans to sell one.
