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DETROIT — A prominent restaurant owner who helped bring fine dining back to Detroit owes almost $700,000 in delinquent taxpayer-funded loans that helped finance the award-winning Seldom Blues and hasn’t been back to his swanky supper club Sweet Georgia Brown since his partners changed the locks. Coleman claims Taylor failed to keep Sweet Georgia Brown money separate from funds owned by Taylor and his management company, Southern Hospitality Restaurant Group. The only problem Taylor doesn’t blame on the economy is the lawsuit filed last month by Coleman, who Taylor claims changed the locks at Sweet Georgia Brown in May. The lawsuit accuses Taylor and Southern Hospitality Restaurant Group of failing to maintain the restaurant’s financial records and failing to keep Sweet Georgia Brown’s money separate from assets owned by or affiliated with Taylor and his management company, according to court records. As for the Sweet Georgia Brown split from partners Coleman and Ransom, Taylor said he hasn’t been back since May, when the locks were changed, and is not involved in the operation. Find Out More

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