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4 | Foundations Design reaucratic permitting processes and building code requirements that can frustratingly vary fromdistrict to district inAtlanta, a bustling, hustling hub of hospitality distinguished as The New York of the South. Foundations’ achievements have prompted certain fame for the company’s co-founders, but don’t ex- pect to find Peter Pasternack or Brian Trow reveling in any referral to their celebrity sta- tus. Though both men have become fixtures in the last six years of broadcasting affiliated with A&E Network’s Flip This House, Pas- ternack resists reference to his star appeal, saying, “We’re just two down-to-Earth guys who are running a business and using tele- vision as a marketing tool to promote more awareness of what we do.” Similar sentiments are shared by Trow, who says, “At the end of day, we’re business partners who love con- struction and design. Television is not who we are. Fame may come, but it will also go ... it will always end sooner or later, but if you have a good business set firmly in place, then you’ll be able to take whatever comes your way, and hopefully roll it into a better op- portunity.” Ironically, it was the want of a better op- portunity which figured in the early forma- The Prado Kitchen, after remodel