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Reporting by Cathalena E. Burch and Gloria Knott.

Besties, the steamed burger and fish joint that took over for Mother Hubbard鈥檚 diner in late 2017, has closed.

In a Facebook post, owner Kade Mislinski hinted at plans to find a new location on North Fourth Avenue and reopen sometime in the fall.

In a phone call Monday, he said that for now he likely will open Besties as a pop-up concept on the back patio of Cafe Passe at 415 N. Fourth Ave., where he is lead cook and kitchen manager for owner Jenny Rice.

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Casa Valencia closed its Campbell location, which was the second location for the seafood bistro.聽

The Campbell location opened in 2016. The original location is at 1825 W. Valencia Rd.聽

Casa Valencia officials could not be reached for comment when contacted on April 2. The restaurant made no announcement of the closure on its social media.

Prep & Pastry plans to move into the space, which is much larger than the breakfast eatery's current location.

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Three years after it opened an outpost in Tucson, Corner Bakery Cafe closed its doors in November.

The soup-sandwich-dessert restaurant, part of a Chicago-based chain, was one of only two in Arizona. The only one left is located in Phoenix.

Employees at that restaurant had no information on the closing and Corner Bakery officials could not be reached.

Corner Bakery opened in Tucson in summer 2016, right next door to another national cafe chain Kneaders Bakery & Cafe, which opened in 2015. That restaurant is still open and Kneaders also has a location in Oro Valley.

Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant temporarily closed for renovations in 2018 but announced their permanent closure in 2019.聽

Cushing Street Bar was born in 1972 when Betsy Rollings鈥� parents, Kelley and Sally, joined three other couples in the venture. Betsy Rollings ran the decades-old restaurant from 2002 until it recently closed, according to 51黑料网 archives.

Nearly four years after Tucson's quintessential downtown dive bar the District Tavern shuttered, it came back to life in 2018, before closing again in 2019.

The Fix closed after nearly seven years in business in the University of Arizona area.

The Fix was known for its mac and cheese concoctions 鈥� pizza, surf and turf, jalape帽o popper, Hawaiian barbecue, enchilada and loaded baked potato, to name a few.

Owners Mike and Sandy Lanz cited several reasons for the closure, including construction of a hotel near the restaurant, the increase in minimum wage and retirement. The Lanzes took over the business in 2013.

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After nearly four years on Tucson鈥檚 far east side, Harvest on River, the sister of the popular Oro Valley restaurant Harvest, closed in March.

Lerua鈥檚 was one of the last businesses to vacate the area where the city plans to widen Broadway to six lanes starting at Euclid Avenue to Country Club Road.

鈥淲e鈥檙e trying to be the last to go. Moving a restaurant is not like moving an office,鈥� Mike Hultquist said in December 2018, before the closure deal with the city was approved.

Hultquist, whose family had owned the restaurant for years, said that the deal was a聽decadeslong process that began in 1987. But the offer fell far short of what he said he would need to relocate the restaurant that had been in his family since his mother, Carmen Maria Borgaro Hultquist, bought Lerua鈥檚 in 1961.

Lerua鈥檚, popular for its green corn tamales, stood on that corner since Tony Lerua opened it in 1922.

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Three Wells Distilling Company closed after five years in business.

"We are so humbled by the amazing support Tucson, and AZ has given us over the years," the company said in a聽. "The relationships we have gained, and the awesome people we have gotten to know make the whole thing worth it!"聽