At least four Jacksonville-area Arby’s restaurants, including two open for four decades, have abruptly closed in recent weeks.
The four locations, all corporate-owned, are at 5081 J Turner Butler Blvd., 9361 Atlantic Blvd., 9171 Baymeadows Road and 4316 Southside Blvd.
Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation records confirm the closings, and phone numbers for all four closed restaurants are no longer active.
Signs have already been removed at some locations and at least one, at 5081 J. Turner Butler Blvd., is listed for lease by real estate services firm TSCG.
Arby’s restaurant at 4316 Southside Blvd. is one of four locations that have recently closed in Jacksonville.
The closings represent a quarter of the 60-year-old, Atlanta-based fast-food chain’s locations in Duval County.
They also represent more than 100 years of combined service slicing and serving up Arby’s signature roast beef and other menu favorites.
According to Duval County property records, the restaurant at 9361 Atlantic Blvd. was built in 1984 near the United Artists theater complex which was later redeveloped into Circuit City and Bed Bath & Beyond, now Ashley Furniture and Aldi, and Best Buy, where Korean supermarket Lotte Plaza Market is set to open.
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The Arby’s restaurant at 9171 Baymeadows Road, has been a fixture there since it was built in 1985. The restaurant at 4316 Southside Blvd., near Touchton Road, was built in 2004. And Arby’s opened in the former Hardee’s spot on Butler Boulevard near Philips Highway in 2017.
The closings come as Pollo Tropical has shuttered all three of its remaining Jacksonville locations at 730 Skymarks Drive in River City Marketplace, 4863 Gate Parkway at the Markets at Town Center and 10989 San Jose Blvd. in Mandarin.
After the closings, 16 other Jacksonville-area Arby’s remain open, including 12 in Jacksonville, two in Orange Park, and one each in Yulee and St. Augustine.
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