Chick-fil-A has under contract the F.Y.E. store at 3801 Hampton Avenue in St. Louis and plans to replace it next year with one of its fast-food outlets.

That's the word Wednesday from Joe Vavrina, a project manager at HR Green, an engineering and technical consulting firm based in McHenry, Ill. He said Chick-fil-A has the St. Louis site under contract with Trans World Entertainment, of Albany, N.Y., and hopes to begin restaurant construction late next spring. The $2 million project would take about 16 weeks to complete.

A manager at the F.Y.E. store said Wednesday he was unaware of the Chick-fil-A project. The site on Hampton is a block north of the Hampton Village shopping center.

HR Green is handling the project's engineering and "running point" on getting a conditional use permit for the Chick-fil-A at the site, Vavrina said. The Atlanta-based fastfood chain plans to have one of its customary general contractors build the Hampton Avenue outpost, he said.

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