After the owning company went bankrupt in 2015, a lengthy and occasionally controversial series of sale attempts for the building's commercial part ensued. Many wildly different visions of it's future were pitched, but eventually Aleksandar Kajmaković, the entrepreneur behind "Eureka Bar", successfully purchased it in 2023.
Kajmaković is connected to multiple major Serbian criminal clans. He is a close associate of Predrag Ranković Peconi, who was briefly arrested in 2003 for strong ties to the clan that assasinated the then-prime minister. He was also apprehended by police as part of the process against top Serbian kingpin Veljko Belivuk, as he was suspected of acting as the legal owner of Belivuk's properties, using gang members for security after seemingly-unidentified assasins planted a bomb under his Montenegro Mercedes in 2002, and for good old money laundering.
Because of his history, the opposition accused Kajmaković of at best desecrating a city symbol with his business and at worst being a front for another even shadier owner, and called for the state to cancel the sale because it's "illegal". His company filed a last-minute extension motion, but it was denied and he is now the owner, despite announced lawsuits from the residential section's upset tenants.
