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Lavan Hawkins (abt. 1856)
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La-Van Hawkins (Photo: YouTube)
La-Van Hawkins once stood astride the stad restaurant and entrepreneurial en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film, a former gang member who left the life behind for that of a businessman, with dozens of fast-food franchises and a marquee spot in Greektown, died Saturday. He was 61.
The Free Press has no cause of death in its coverage.
Hawkins was known as a big man with a big personality, and sometimes for big trouble with the law -- for failing to pay payroll taxes, and in a Philadelphia corruption case, where he was sentenced to prison time for perjury. He also made Crain's "40 Under 40" list of promising ung business people, and at one time ran the "12th-largest black-owned company in the United States with $246 million in annual sales, according to Black Enterprise magazine," the paper reports.
Sweet Georgia Brown, his restaurant in Greektown, was an early entrant in the comeback of downtown stad dining, a white-tableclo
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La-Van Hawkins Biography
1960—
Businessman, restaurateur
Few people have risen so far—or fallen so fast—as businessman and restaurant owner La-Van Hawkins. In 2003, Hawkins was on top of the world: born in the ghettos of Chicago, he had become the owner of more than 100 Pizza Hut franchises in Michigan and the owner-operator of one of Detroit's swankiest new eateries, Sweet Georgia Brown, and the sales of his company made his the twelfth largest black-owned business in the United States; he owned several homes, including a lavish mansion outside Atlanta, and was recognized throughout Detroit when he drove around in his convertible Bentley; and he was courted by local and national politicians. In an adoring profile published in Ebony magazine in April of 2003, Hawkins crowed about his success, proclaiming "I'm proof that you can do anything. I've succeeded against all odds because I refused to be denied."
Barely one year later, Hawkins (along with ten othe