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The old Long John Silver's building has been through a lot of ups and downs lately. After over 20 years of selling fast food fish, the franchise owners decided in 2007 to close the doors and leave town, supposedly over a dispute about grease traps.

The building sat empty for two years, until finally a new tenant started moving in, the Sugarplum Bakery, which was relocating from Genoa to Carson. It opened last June, but only lasted about three weeks before closing their doors too. The bakery later relocated to Minden, but the Long John Silver building still sat empty.

Over the last few weeks I've seen activity around the building, so I thought there might be a new tenant in the works. And indeed, early this morning I drove by to find a sign had gone up for Lily's China Bistro. I've never heard of it before, but that could be good news, a new business owner trying to make a go of it.

This is right next door to the old Burger King, which is still in the process of being converted to Super Burrito, another local business that already has three stores in Reno. So if the national franchises are leaving and locals moving in, that could be a good trend towards bringing Carson City's economy back to life.

Crews are on site right now at the old Burger King in Carson City, installing signs for the new Super Burrito that is moving into the building.

As I said on Twitter last night, I was driving through Minden for the first time in a couple of weeks, and saw that the old Taco John's building, right next door to McDonald's, has a sign saying "Super Burrito Coming Soon". Taco John's closed a little over a year ago, after being open for only two years. Super Burrito seems to be taking advantage of the hard fortunes of some other companies to expand their operations into the Eagle and Carson Valleys. They're also opening a store in the old Burger King building by Carson Mall. A few commenters have said that the Super Burritos in Reno and Sparks make pretty good food, so I'm looking forward to these opening so I can try it out.

Looks like the old Burger King on south Carson, the one that just closed last month, already has found a new tenant. Today they were putting up signs that say "Coming Soon, Super Burrito". Super Burrito is a small Mexican food chain based out of Reno, with only two stores in Reno and Sparks. Looks like this will be their third.

I've never been to Super Burrito so I can't say how good the food is, or if this new place will be a permanent addition to Carson City. Has anyone out there partaken of a Super Burrito?

Update: Pictures of the signs they put up yesterday. Good to know I wasn't seeing things!