New Braunfels businessman and restaurant owner Ron Snider, known for his work rebuilding and revitalizing downtown, died on Friday. He was 70.
Snider was born on Sept. 28, 1950. According to a previous Herald-Zeitung story, he grew up in inner-city Indianapolis, Ind., and said he traced his love of old buildings to those years.
Describing himself as a âserial entrepreneur,â Snider had worked to rebuild downtown New Braunfels since he came to town in 1982 when he began a business building wooden playground equipment. He opened the New Braunfels Smoker Company in 1989, a barbecue manufacturing company, which he sold in 1997.
It wasnât long after Snider settled in New Braunfels that he and his partner, Darrell Sollberger, began buying buildings downtown.