SAN JOSE — A Bay Area investor has bought an empty former Safeway store in a deal that could breathe new life into a downtown San Jose site that has been vacant for six years.
Babu Paturi, who is based at a residence in San Jose, paid $2 million in an all-cash deal to buy the site at 100 South Second St., according to documents filed on Sept. 8 with the Santa Clara County Recorder’s Office.
Paturi is the manager of at least one LLC, state and county public documents show…