Complex sentence: For the seven years between 1999--2006, John Wozniak of Marcy Playground fame owned and operated the studio, and in 2006, Rob Darch, owner of Hipposonic Studios, bought the building but not the equipment therein and rechristened it to Hippowest.
Split into simpler sentences: For the seven years between 1999--2006, John Wozniak of Marcy Playground fame owned and operated the studio. In 2006, Rob Darch, owner of Hipposonic Studios, bought the building but not the equipment therein and rechristened it to Hippowest.