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Lanier Plaza business owners oppose redevelopment
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Lanier Plaza on Thompson Bridge Road has a half-dozen businesses that will have to move when the new owner begins redevelopment. A grocery store and gas station are planned. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Aurelio Guzman has fond childhood memories of the El Sombrero Mexican Restaurant on Thompson Bridge Road in Gainesville. His father opened the establishment in the Lanier Plaza shopping center some 30 years ago, and the success of the business spawned six additional locations throughout Hall County. “It’s a sentimental thing to him, and me, too,” Guzman said.