About 10 years ago or so we met a gent from Chicago had purchased Norma's restaurant and Bar. He was in the process of sticking a bunch of money into fixing up those areas and seemed to be throwing his money around (luckily for us) at the bar. By the next year he was out of the picture as he supposedly did not acquire "proper title" to the property and the "rightful owner" came back to re-claim the property. Maybe Rob has more insight.