Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, the Louisiana-based restaurant, is taking over a recently closed Hardee’s at 7501 Rogers Ave. in Fort Smith.

MAPP Commercial Contractors in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, confirmed Tuesday the $1.5 million building permit at 7501 Rogers Ave. was for a new Raising Cane’s. A MAPP project manager was unable to provide any further details.

The Hardee's at 7501 Rogers Ave. closed March 31. Three Hardee’s restaurants remain open in Fort Smith, including one at 2720 Rogers Ave. Others are at 4123 Grand Ave. and 1820 Phoenix Ave.

According to the Raising Cane’s website, there are currently five Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers in Arkansas — Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers and Texarkana. Each restaurant gets a number and a unique name. The newest Raising Cane's in Arkansas is No. 355 at 1402 S. Walton Road in Bentonville, also known as "Another Brick in the Wall." Texarkana's No. 176, is called "The Great Divide." Fayetteville's two locations — No. 195 at 859 E. Millsap Road and No. 254 at 1788 W. Martin Luther King Blvd. — are respectively known to insiders as "The Razorback Caniac" and "The Dream."

There are 16 outlets in Oklahoma, with six of those around Tulsa. The sixth Tulsa Raising Cane’s opened in December 2018. Raising Cane's has even made it up to Anchorage, Alaska.

Todd Graves founded Raising Cane’s in Baton Rouge in 1996. The chain has grown to more than 420 restaurants in 24 states, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The newest two Raising Cane’s were opened in late January in Cincinnati and Bellevue, Nebraska.

Raising Cane's will be in competition for the fried chicken vote on Rogers Avenue with local favorites Chick-Fil-A at 6810 Rogers Ave. and Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen, 8150 Rogers Ave.