Proprietor+2

Proprietor- (Noun)- A. One granted ownership of a colony (as one of the original American colonies) and full prerogatives of establishing a government and distributing land. B. A person who has the legal right or exclusive title to something.

-She is now the proprietor of the store her parents started. -It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead, when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.