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HANOVER TWP. – The McDonald’s restaurant at 746 Sans Souci Parkway was demolished Tuesday. A replacement built to the company’s latest design should be open this fall.

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A backhoe leveled the site of the McDonald’s restaurant along the Sans Souci Parkway on Tuesday to make way for a new restaurant building.

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The local franchisee will replace the former McDonald’s fast food restaurant along Sans Souci Parkway with a new design. The McDonald’s franchise is expected to reopen this fall.

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Henry Wesolowski, supervisor for Clarks Summit-based franchise holders Albert and Carol Mueller, said the restaurant will be their first in Northeastern Pennsylvania to use the new style, which he described as “more of a modern building.”

Seating capacity inside the approximately 4,000-square-foot structure will not change from the previous 70-80, Wesolowski said. The biggest change will be elimination of the basement, which had been used for storage. Everything will now be on one level.

“We transferred (employees) to other restaurants,” Wesolowski said. The franchise owners operate 15 McDonald’s locations, including ones in Mountain Top and Shavertown and several in Lackawanna County.

When it reopens, the restaurant will resume the 24-hour schedule it had been on and the number of employees will remain the same, Wesolowski said. He declined to say how many people worked there.