The phrase "achieving some renown" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of gaining recognition or fame in a particular field or context.
Example: "After years of hard work and dedication, the artist is finally achieving some renown in the art community."
Alternatives: "gaining recognition" or "attaining fame".
The place achieved some renown in the mid-sixties, when it was owned by Sam Michael Fiscella.
Farber had already achieved some renown for the contrarian views he expressed in essays that avoided obscurantist prose in favor of a direct and colloquial style.
In 1939 he formed the Duo Schnabel with Helen Fogel, an American pianist who had already achieved some renown as a soloist.
Through his association with Debussy and Ravel (as well as subsequent collaborations with younger Surrealists like Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, and René Clair), Satie achieved some renown in his later years, but he died alone at age fifty-nine, of cirrhosis.
A friend of Reisen, H.D. (Hersh David) Nomberg, also achieved some renown early in the 20th century for his short stories, which present a tragic view of life and include incisive psychological portraits.
Robert Hodgins, the elder statesman of South African art, says, "We are now afflicted with a mingling of condescension and panic that has created a terrible Bantuphilia, which is in turn producing enormous publicity for a lot of very bad artists". Wane Barker submitted a work in 1990 to a drawing competition under the pseudonym Andrew Moletsi, and it achieved some renown.
Miller had achieved some renown for using microarrays to capture genetic profiles of cancerous tissues, but after 3 years at NCI, the 30-year-old molecular biologist had begun to ponder the next step in his career.
He is a prominent figure in the world of self-driving vehicles, having worked on the technology for more than a decade and achieving some degree of renown as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, when he designed a self-driving motorcycle that was entered in the Pentagon's first contest for autonomous vehicles.
By 1967, he was in a band called the Hassles, which recorded a couple of albums and achieved some mid-Island renown.
But James was in command of his fate by then, achieving the renown he longed for.
