Burger King in Rehoboth Beach has closed. The restaurant’s sign says the restaurant lost its lease. According to Sussex County property tax records, the property owner is BKRB LLC, based out of Stuart, Fla.
Online real estate listings have the 1.27-acre property, 18784 Coastal Highway, for sale at the price of $1.95 million. The building was built in 1982 and the parcel is commercially zoned.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.