Broad Street Burger, a perennial fast-food fix for Harrisburg residents, is closing its doors next month, but owner Ed Bautista is already shopping for a new home.

"They plan to demolish the building Oct. 31, so we will have to close down sometime by the middle of October," he said.

The tiny restaurant near Chaffee Park, which has operated under various names since 1953, lies on property acquired last year by the Salvation Army, which is razing or moving many structures in the area to make way for its new Kroc Center.

In all, the Salvation Army has purchased 17 acres in that area and gave Broad Street Burger until "the absolute last moment" to close and vacate the site, said Derek Dugan, the Kroc Center's coordinator.

"This is easily the least popular announcement we will make about the Kroc Center," Mr. Dugan said. "From the beginning, we have said they could stay, rent free, until the last possible minute. That time is here and now we want to be sure that everyone knows to stop by before it closes."

Mr. Bautista hopes to move to someplace close to the original site.

"We're already looking," he said. "A lot of people kept telling us, 'we love your hamburgers' and 'we'll follow you.' There are a lot of people who grew up with this place."

The Kroc Center will be an 85,000-square-foot arts, education, recreation and worship center to be located in the Harrisburg neighborhood.

It has been made available through the gift of Joan Kroc, who, upon her passing, left $1.7 billion to The Salvation Army to build and endow "Kroc Centers" across the nation. Augusta's Kroc Center will be among six such facilities in the South.