In September 1989, global entrepreneur and co-founder of Laura Ashley plc, Sir Bernard Ashley, purchased the property.

Swiss entrepreneur and investor Patrick Liotard-Vogt purchased the controlling stake and became the company's Chairman.

By 1999, a local entrepreneur had purchased the train, track, depot, and property in order to keep the riverfront free from development.

With the loan, the entrepreneur purchased a building on the same road where he was originally located.

The young entrepreneur recognized the potential of the property and purchased it for $1.4 million.

In November of that same year, local ownership of channel 16 returned when entrepreneur Thomas H. Draper purchased the station.

In the early 20th century, entrepreneur Thomas E. Wilson purchased 2,000 acres of land in the area, which became known as the Edellyn Farms estate.

San Antonio entrepreneurs, convinced that the water from Comanche and nearby Leon springs could be used for irrigation, purchased large tracts of land for agricultural development.

Door-to-door entrepreneurs purchased chain saws for the brisk post-strike downed-tree business.

In 1925, Joseph and Malcolm Biedenharn and other entrepreneurs purchased a crop-dusting business and added eighteen planes, then the largest privately owned fleet in the world.