Buyers to transform historic building to upscale music house and social club

Company pays $2.1 million for nearly 100-year-old building once owned by Charles Ringling and empty since 2001.

By Louis Llovio
| 12:40 p.m. March 7, 2022
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Building once owned by Charles Ringling sold for $2.1 million. To become music house and social club. (Courtesy photo)

Manatee-Sarasota

SARASOTA — A nearly 100-year-old commercial building in downtown Sarasota, which once housed the office of Charles Ringling, is about to undergo a major makeover.

The building at 1927 Ringling Blvd., off of Main Street and next to a parking garage, has been sold for $2.1 million and will be restored and transformed into an upscale music venue and social club that will be called SRQUS. The name, not surprisingly, is pronounced circus.