The Faber’s Cyclery building at South First and Margaret streets was unveiled Nov. 21, 2022, after a nine-year restoration following a devastating fire in 2013. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group)
Most people wouldn’t think about restoring a building like Faber’s Cyclery, a 140-year-old wooden structure on the southern edge of downtown San Jose that was devastated by a fire in 2013. Most people would bulldoze the wreckage and build something new. Jim Salata is not most people.
The owner of Garden City Construction and Buccaneer Demolition couldn’t let the building — one he had long coveted — disappear. And one day just before