I'm also surprised to hear about a McDonald's closing, especially one sitting right there. My first thought was that they were going to tear it down to replace it with one of those new retro designs. We have one here and though I hardly go there, it's very nice. So I couldn't help but google it myself, and sure enough, it was simply a closing down effective January 10th, period, end of story. This is almost unheard of. How can they not want a store on that stretch of road?