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… is going to be on land just north of its sister restaurant, Rokerij, on 16th street. Maybe this has been reported elsewhere, but I haven’t seen it. Richardson’s, which was at 16th Street and Bethany, you’ll recall, was destroyed in a fire last July.

A server at Rockerij tonight told us that the owner, Richardson Brown, had bought the land just north of Rokerij a long time ago. It’s currently occupied by a Daily Queen and a mini mart. (This is on the southeast corner of Maryland and 16th Street.) The new building will essentially duplicate the old Richardson’s layout of a bar and ten booths, which will be comforting to the old place’s many fans, but it will also have a large patio with ten more tables. The new place could be open in nine months, she said.