The Riviera Maya restaurant is an amalgam of recycled Indiana architecture. The south-east corner contains a Gothic arch doorway removed from the ruins of Kokomo’s First Baptist Church, destroyed by a fire in the early 1980s. There is stained glass from a Masonic temple in Warsaw. Mirrored glass arches came from a building in downtown Tipton, the home of the Sisters of St. Joseph Convent, which is where a freezer door — now converted to wall art — came from, as did a mahogany and glass door used in a corridor and a green marble plaque on the hostess desk. There is wood flooring from a Logansport home, a 150 year-old bar built in the Ohio River Valley and, in the center of the dining area, sits a small fountain contain-ing white marble from St. Mary of the Woods College in Terre Haute. It’s a beauti-ful sight, the way the pieces come together. “When we first got the building, it was a mess,” one of the restaurant’s three owners, Felipe Ortiz, says. “[The renovations] turned out real nice. It’s not really for us though. It’s for the customers.” The Riviera Maya is one of many buildings created by Kokomo’s Fortune Companies Inc., a phenomenal tes-tament to The Pitchers’ architectural mission to save materials from abandonment in area landfills, to reuse, and create places that aren’t just businesses but an artistic accom-plishment communities can be proud of for decades to come. “We were doing green and sustainable work before they named it,” Scott Pitcher says. “Back then I was ‘that guy who keeps buying junk buildings.’ At that time our goal was not only to save reus-able materials but to save entire buildings and entire city blocks.” -And they have prov-en this every step of the way.