Taqueria Habanero and its neighbors in a College Park shopping center will have to relocate after Sept. 30.

The popular Mexican restaurant and other tenants of 8145 Baltimore Ave. will shut down at the end of the month as the Campus Village Shoppes shopping center will be torn down to make way for new student housing.

Yicela Alvarado, director of operations and the oldest daughter of owners Dionicio Montero and Mirna Montero-Alvarado, told the Hyattsville Wire that the taqueria will be run out of a food truck until they can find a new location.

“We are actively working with the new project developer and City of College Park to operate under modified conditions this includes obtaining a designated space for Taqueria Habaneros food truck and a possible future location so that we can continue building community through food,” she said.

Other tenants that will be affected include Mr. Fries Man, Hanami Japanese restaurant, Pupuseria La Familiar Salvadoran restaurant, Box’d Kitchen, Jodeem African cuisine, Jidong Tea, Paris Beauty Bar, UM Nail Spa, Pandora’s Cube videogame store, Vape Exchange and College Park Liquors, which has started a GoFundMe to pay for the cost of relocating.

The owners of the shopping center said recently that they are working with tenants individually.

“Nearly all tenants have agreed to compensation and LV is actively negotiating with the remaining few,” they said in a statement to D.C. News Now. “We have partnered with some tenants to come back to the new development once completed.”

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