A business owner wanted to turn a vacant cycling store into a craft beer bar and restaurant with its own indoor crazy golf course. The Peterborough building, most recently occupied by Rutland ...

In 2010, that spot originally evolved in just days from an empty shell with concrete walls and a sand floor into the then-new Top Shots billiards bar in the City Centre building on South Broadway.

SAN JOSE — A speakeasy is headed for an empty tower in downtown San Jose, a unique bar that the highrise’s owner hopes will spur a revival of a moribund section of the city’s urban core.

The former HopCat Bar building in the Highlands is no longer empty.A new bar opened on the top floor of the building, offering unique drinking options and a place to dance.

The historic building is being revamped as retail and office space by Omgivning, an L.A.-based architecture and design firm.Plus there'll be a restaurant and rooftop bar, which will expand the ...