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Focusing on Rural Markets, Cassland and Buckhead Developing Four 
Country Hearth Inns in Georgia

Prototype hotels break even at a 50% occupancy rate 
and  developed for as little as $35,000 a room

 
Atlanta, Ga - September 15, 2000 - Buckhead America, the Atlanta based 
hospitality services corporation announced the recent signing of an agreement for the  development of four Country Hearth Inns in Georgia.  The new properties now under development will open in mid 2001 and are located in Bainbridge, Cairo, Sylvester and Jesup, Georgia.  These properties are pursuant to the previously announced Cassland Corporation master license agreement for the development of 30 properties over the next five years. The four properties will be leased by Buckhead and franchised and managed by the Company.

�We are very excited to be working with one of the most aggressive development 
company�s in the industry and look forward to expanding the Rural Gold concept in the Southeast. These prototype hotels focus on the needs of rural markets, break even at a 50% occupancy rate and can be developed for as little as $35,000 a room.  A very attractive package for potential franchise owners, states Douglas C. Collins president and CEO of Buckhead America.

�The Rural Gold concept offers us, as a development company, architecture with 
integrity, the ability to build an affordable mid-price hotel using a design that caters to the down home comforts of a bed and breakfast inn.� states Azim Kassm, president of Cassland Corporation.

Buckhead America a diversified hospitality services company whose holdings 
include the 55 hotels under the Country Hearth Inn lodging system, The Lodge Keeper Group, a hotel management company and 33 additional hotels owned, leased and/or managed.  

Buckhead America is a public company with common shares traded on the 
NASDAQ, National Market System under the symbol BUCK.

Certain statements contained in this release are forward-looking statements as defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 based on current expectation.  

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Contact:
Kerry Shehan
Buckhead America
Phone: 888.640.1302
http://www.countryhearth.com/
[email protected]

Also See Buckhead America Signs Pact for Development of Country Hearth Inn Hotels in Rural Southeast / April 1998 
Buckhead America Signs Development Agreement Covering 22 Country Hearth Inns in Florida / March 1999 


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