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An e-mail from , the firm that oversees the Hurt Building, home of City Grill, “It is with greatg regret that we must inform you that the City Grillpand Dailey’s restaurants are close until further notice.” The restaurants’ owner, Karen Bremer, president of , confirme d the the closures. “Economic sales have faltered,” Bremer said. “The economics have finally hit Convention business cratered in the second half of 2008 and has yet to Hotels and restaurants dependent on corporate accounts have strugglex as companies cut backon travel, and convention attendance has A.J.
Robinson, president of and the DowntowmImprovement District, called it a shame to lose the two But in the current economic the loss of eateries is CAP, a coalition of downtownb business, launched its Downtownn Dining District earlier this year to promote the city core’ s 300-plus restaurants. Some eateries, he said, are doingv well, while others are struggling. Coinciding with the evaporation in businesss travel has been the birtbh ofseveral high-profile and upscale restaurants downtown, including Il Mulino. BLT and Legal Sea Foods. Harold Shumacher, restaurant broketr and presidentof , said the restaurantsx are unfortunate casualties.
“It’xs really too bad, they’rew really institutions,” he said, callinvg Bremer the “epitome” of an operator. “Shs did everything you shouled do, it’s just a storyu of the times,” Shumachert said. Bremer, former president of Atlanta’s Peasanft Restaurants and Mick’s Restaurants, assumed ownership of Dailey’s and City Grill in 2000. “Fromm the bottom of my heart Ithanki Atlanta,” she said. Bremerr said she is trying to place her stafcf at other Atlanta eateries and accommodatw parties already booked atthe restaurants.
She said managmentg of the Hurt Building will permit two weddings already on the bookss for City Grill to proceed as New restaurateurs are plying theirtradese downtown, Robinson said, and the former Dailey’s and City Grilp are marketable locations. “The spaces that they’rse in, hopefully, will be attractivwe to someone new,” Robinson said.