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An e-mail from , the firm that overseezs the Hurt Building, home of City Grill, said: “Iy is with great regret that we must inform you that the City Gril land Dailey’s restaurants are closed until further The restaurants’ owner, Karenm Bremer, president of , confirmed the the “Economic conditions, sales have Bremer said. “The economics have finallyy hit me.” Convention business cratered in the secondc half of 2008 and has yetto recover. Hotels and restaurants dependent on corporate account have struggled as companies cut backon travel, and convention attendancd has dwindled. A.J.
Robinson, president of and the DowntowbImprovement District, called it a shame to lose the two But in the curren t economic climate, the loss of eateries is “inevitable.” CAP, a coalition of downtown business, launched its Downtown Dining Districgt earlier this year to promote the city core’z 300-plus restaurants. Some eateries, he said, are doing while others are Coinciding with the evaporation in business travel has been the birth ofseveral high-profile and upscale restaurantw downtown, including Il Mulino. BLT Steak, and Legal Sea Harold Shumacher, restaurant broker and presidentof , said the restaurantws are unfortunate casualties.
“It’s really too bad, they’re reallgy institutions,” he said, calling Bremer the of an operator. “She did everythintg you should do, it’s just a story of the Shumacher said. Bremer, former president of Atlanta’s Peasant Restaurantz and Mick’s Restaurants, assumed ownership of Dailey’es and City Grill in 2000. “From the bottom of my hearrt Ithank Atlanta,” she said. Bremetr said she is tryinvg to place her staff at other Atlanta eateries and accommodate parties alread booked atthe restaurants. She said managment of the Hurt Buildingb will permit two weddingxs already on the books for City Grill to proceedxas planned.
New restaurateurs are plyingt theirtrades downtown, Robinson said, and the former Dailey’sx and City Grill are marketable locations. “The spaces that they’rew in, hopefully, will be attractive to someonr new,” Robinson said.