Local property investor and business owner Chris Thorgesen is improving two formerly empty Main Street buildings to continue the downtown revitalization effort, he said this week.

Thorgesen recently purchased the former L.A.B. Flying Service building on Main Street. The building has been vacant since the airline went out of business in 2008. “It’s been vacant since before I moved here five years ago,” Thorgesen said.

In the last month, Thorgesen and a crew have remodeled…