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Bill Ramirez, left, and his father, Ildefonso Ramirez, are pictured here with a tray of Cuban tamales at their former Kool Korner Sandwiches location in the Vestavia Hills Center Center. The shop is reopening in a new location in the Vestridge Commons retail center. (Birmingham News file/Mark Almond)

Kool Korner Sandwiches is coming back to Vestavia Hills.

The popular Cuban sandwich shop, which closed in June after six years in the Vestavia Hills City Center, should reopen in about four or five weeks in the Vestridge Commons retail center on U.S. 31, Kool Korner co-owner Bill Ramirez told AL.com this afternoon.

The shop will move into a former Philly Connection location at 1360 Montgomery Highway, a few doors down from Sol Azteca Mexican restaurant.

"We are signing (the lease) this weekend," Ramirez said. "We are eager to open, and just as soon as we can clear all of the permits that we need, we are ready to go."

Ramirez's father, 92-year-old Cuban immigrant Ildefonso Ramirez, ran the original Kool Korner Sandwiches in Atlanta for about 25 years until his building was sold in 2008. He opened in Vestavia Hills in 2009 after he moved here to be closer to his son.

The shop became famous over the years for its authentic pressed Cuban sandwich, which Garden & Gun magazine named one of its "100 Southern Foods You Absolutely, Positively Must Try Before You Die."

The father and son, who co-own the business, closed their shop in the Vestavia Hills City Center after they could not agree on a new lease with the shopping center's owners.

Bill Ramirez said it was important to his father to find another location in Vestavia Hills.

"My father wanted to be close to his neighbors, to his customers," he said. "We talked last night, and he's very glad to get back to it."