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Here’s where the 1st Hooters restaurant in The Villages will open

Hooters is planning to close multiple locations across the country.
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A little more than one year after the announcement of a development agreement that would bring three Hooters restaurants to The Villages, the first location for the wing-restaurant chain in the retirement mega-community has been revealed.

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Geno Jarquin, director of commercial development for The Villages, announced July 15 via LinkedIn that Hooters had signed a lease at Lake Deaton Plaza.

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The Publix-anchored shopping center on State Road 44 is positioned toward the southeast corner of the large retirement community, a little over five miles west downtown Leesburg.

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