Plans for the new McDonald’s are not yet finalized, but are very likely to happen. Centerville city officials approved plans for the new McDonald’s earlier this year.
“We are still going through our due diligence, but we hope to be done in the early summer,” said McDonald’s spokesman Phil Saken. The new McDonald’s is tentatively scheduled open by mid-fall, Saken said, and the existing McDonald’s will stay open until the new restaurant is ready to open.
Ulrich said he and his partners will lease the land to McDonald’s. The family sports bar’s owners have not ruled out reopening Talegators elsewhere, but no location has been selected, Ulrich said.
While it has been drawing robust crowds in recent months, Talegators’s business was hurt by Ohio’s smoking ban, which took effect in 2006, and later by the recession, Ulrich said. Closing now and accepting the offer from McDonald’s made financial sense, he said.
The closing will affect 10 to 15 employees, most of whom have lined up other jobs, Ulrich said.
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