To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: In the early 2000's, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm began buying up the riverfront land, most containing decades-old homes. Several acres at a time , and millions of dollars at a time, Hackman Capital Properties bought land on the roads behind St. Bernard School from the people, banks and limited liability corporations that owned them.
