FALL RIVER — It's a new dawn for the Nite Owl diner. 

Joseph Nasrallah, the owner of the tiny 1956 restaurant iconic in the city’s Flint neighborhood, is hoping to sell the property at 1680 Pleasant St., which includes the diner and the lot behind it. 

“If he can’t find a buyer, the next option would be to lease out the Nite Owl, and he would renovate it," Antone Dias told the Fall River Historical Commission during its meeting Tuesday. 

Dias, an architect and former Historical Commission chairman, is working with Nasrallah to have the Nite Owl listed on the state and national registries of historic places. The intent is first to make sure the Nite Owl stays intact, then let it spread its wings again with a new restaurateur.

Read more from Dan Medeiros at heraldnews.com.