Athens City Council pulls Panera Bread talks from agenda
Published: Aug. 13, 2018 at 8:48 AM CDT|Updated: Aug. 14, 2018 at 5:31 AM CDT
ATHENS, AL (WAFF) - The Athens City Council has decided to pull a plan to give Panera Bread incentives to build a restaurant in the city - at least for now.
The issue was incentives. The council talked about offering Panera Bread $250,000 in tax breaks and other deals to build.
As we've been telling you, other business owners complained it wasn't fair for Panera to get tax breaks that they didn't get when they built.
Council president Chris Seibert says they'll go back to the developer and talk about other ways to lure the chain.
He said he understood why others felt the proposal wasn't fair.
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