Paschal's Restaurant may get reprieve from wrecking ball

<p>A landmark restaurant that was a popular meeting place for black leaders in Atlanta during the civil rights era may be saved from the wrecking ball.</p><p>Clark Atlanta University, which owns Paschal's Restaurant, is negotiating the restaurant's sale to Trammell Crow Co.</p><p>The deal would include the surrounding complex, which houses a nightclub, a hotel and parking lot.</p><p>Officials with Trammell Crow and the school have declined comment.</p><p>But Atlanta City Council member Ivory Lee Young Junior said he will hold a news conference Thursday morning at the old Paschal's building to announce plans for the development.</p><p>Tracy Gates owns nearby Busy Bee, another restaurant, and said that if the deal goes through, she will purchase the restaurant and La Carrousel restaurant from Trammell Crow.</p><p>Clark Atlanta brought Paschal's in 1996. It kept the restaurant but converted the hotel into dorms. The school closed Paschal's in July 2003 after reporting losses of $500,000 a year.</p><p>It announced it would raze the building to build dorms. But many rallied to save the building and in February, university officials dropped plans to demolish the site and hired a brokerage firm to sell it.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2866650)</p>

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