Eli Cox owns the barstools at My Boy Tony, and now the ground they sit on, too.

“I just want to keep it as something good for the community,” he said.

Cox and business partner Mark Hansen, who owns the backpack brand Topo Designs, purchased the real estate for their bar at 4280 Tennyson St. last week for $1.6 million, according to public records.

No immediate changes are planned. The 1,620-square-foot corner retail building has an outdoor patio and a single apartment upstairs. It traded for $957 per square foot, which Cox said “wasn’t dramatically less” than the appraised value.

Public records show that the two buyers took out a $1.2 million, 25-year loan with a variable interest rate from Alpine Bank. No outside investors are involved in the real estate, Cox said. The bar business has

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