The location was one of six franchises that frequently changed hands. In 2018, its franchiser said he would sell his five other locations to a fellow McDonald’s franchiser. This particular store, however, would be sold on its own and turned into a halal restaurant, NPR reports. Closing the branch would mean shutting off a major source of employment for the neighborhood. One of the food bank’s organizers told Vice that, with the McDonald’s gone, the only other place for residents to find work was a local hypermarket.

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