With the Hooters now closed, it leaves the commercial strip along Aldrich Avenue S. near the Burnsville Parkway exit on 35W in Burnsville with another empty space.
Other businesses sitting vacant are Timber Lodge Steakhouse and Parrot Island.
The Hooters closed near the end of October. With that closing, the chain has only one location left in the state. That restaurant is at the Mall of America in Bloomington.
Skip Nienhaus, the economic development coordinator for the city, said it was interesting that several establishments so close to each other had shut their doors, though he said it could have just been coincidental with corporate decision making.
"Why that was a good location for restaurants for years and years, and why it isn't now, I don't know," he said.
Shidor opens another Farmington location
A year after the opening of Shidor in Farmington, a second shop called More Shidor recently held its grand opening not far from the first.
The secondhand shop's new location is at 308 Oak St. in downtown Farmington. The store specializes in reselling furniture and books.
