A local investor has bought the former Hound Dogs bar on the corner of Main and Seventh streets downtown and has plans to lease the building as a lounge with a rooftop bar.
Cornelius Quarels, who moved to Baton Rouge from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, bought the building from Darren Aschaffenburg, a Dallas-based developer, for $165,000 in a deal that closed several weeks ago.
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