Downtown eatery's owner sells building to bank

CHAMPAIGN – The Great Impasta, a longtime anchor in the Champaign restaurant business, will leave downtown Champaign in less than a year.

The restaurant's owner, Harold Allston, finalized a sale of his property at 114 W. Church St. on Thursday to Paris-based First Bank, which plans to add a third Champaign County facility there in about a year-and-a-half.

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