YOU ASKED: I would like to know what the building without signs or windows on Lorne Street (beside Buzz's Autobody) is. It has been there for quite a few years and has never had any signage.

— Yvonne K.

OUR ANSWER: We dug into our Daily News archives as a starting point after our civic affairs reporter Michele Young recalled a story she had done a few years back about that very building.

Back in spring of 2001, Young detailed plans by a Vancouver-based fibre optics company, called 360networks, to build a $3-million transmission regeneration facility (a.k.a. the mysterious building on Lorne Street). The facility wouldn’t be staffed, wrote Young. It would mainly be used to regenerate fibre-optic signals en route between Vancouver and Edmonton or Vancouver and Calgary.

Armed with that information, we contacted 360networks to confirm the location and use of the Lorne Street building . . . and this is where the mystery deepens. Or, to put it another way: hits a brick wall.

A media spokesman for 360networks said the building doesn’t belong to them. “We’ve been out of Canada (other than a small presence in Vancouver) for quite some time,” said Scott Fincher, who suggested we contact Bell Canada, which purchased 360’s assets in 2004.

So we did.

But that didn’t get us much further.

A Bell spokeswoman was only able to confirm that Bell no longer owns the building.

So, we tried the City of Kamloops to see if anyone there knew who owned the building.

Dave Freeman, assistant director of Development and Engineering, said the site was recently listed for sale through Colliers International. He wasn’t sure of the outcome.

Pressing Freeman for more wouldn’t do us any good, though. The City is bound by privacy rules that forbid it from divulging information about private property owners.

So, the only thing we could do was toddle on down to the Land Title and Survey office in Kamloops to find out who holds the title on that piece of property.

Ten dollars and 55 cents later, we had our registered owner —0875549 B.C. Ltd.

Yep, after all that, our hunt led to a numbered company, which is a lot like running into a brick wall … or a stop sign.