PASSAIC – Plans are in place for the Seville restaurant, which has been serving tapas and paella on Main Avenue for more than 35 years, to be replaced by a Taco Bell.
Seville owner Delfín Rodríguez showed that he had signed a 20-year lease with Taco Bell, adding that he knew when he would close his place to eat or when Taco Bell would start reusing the property.
The owner said he plans to reopen his place to eat in the short term if New Jersey lifts the ban on the interior.
“I don’t do seats outside,” he says.
It is also unclear whether Taco Bell will renovate or demolish the restaurant. Rodriguez also did not specify who owned the lease, but Mayor Hector Lora said the company Muy!, a major franchise of Taco Bell, Wendy’s and Pizza Hut restaurants.
Taco Bell would detail the site’s plans, saying, “We don’t have data for the percentage at the moment.”
Whatever happens with the fast food franchise, it’s said there’ll be a window on site, Lora said.
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“It would be like being in Little Italy and looking to open an olive grove,” Lora said. Instead, he hopes that, given his driving service and huge parking, he will attract others for a fast food as well as teenagers.
Initially, it’s a house. Then, in 1869, the Church of St. Nicholas renovated it and served as the first place of worship of the parish.
After the fire, it was the headquarters of the Passaic City Wheeling Athletic Association, and the construction that lasted more than 75 years was erected in 1889.
“It was a smart year for Passaic,” Auerbach said. The botany Mills buildings and the current location of St. Nicholas Church were also built that year.
The sports organization later became a Passaic City Club, which operated until the early 1970s.
However, the building broke down in a chimney in the 1960s, Auerbach said, and archived legal notices show that the Passaic City Club sued its borrowers in the early 1970s. After that, it’s become a nightclub, he says.
This corresponds to Rodriguez’s memory that the construction of an old nightclub when he bought it in 1985 to inaugurate Seville.
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