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Suna Om (right) laughs with her tenant, Aboubacar Soumah, at a mall she owns on Ralph D. Abernathy. Om is a trailblazer, says Franklyn Simmons, Vice President of commercial lending for Capitol City Bank & Trust Company in the West End. The bank financed one of Om's commercial real estate purchases last year and is interested in her hotel proposal. Hyosub Shin/AJC