Old School Building Restored to Former Glory “It’s like day and night,” construction manager Bill Rasner said while surveying renovations at Old Shelby High apartments earlier this year. The project, an initiative of complex owner Purple Vetch Properties, LLC, was the first significant infrastructure upgrade since at least the early 1990s, when the building transitioned into residential use following service as the community junior high school and, before that, Shelbyville High School.