A Central Texas Whataburger is closing for a massive multimillion-dollar remodel beginning next week. The Whataburger at 3210 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in East Austin will be temporarily closed starting Monday, February 9.

A Whataburger spokesperson told MySA that the restaurant will be closed for approximately three months and will tentatively reopen in late May or early June. This comes after the company set $2 million renovation plans for the same location last month.

In January, Whataburger submitted a state filing to update the restaurant and its surrounding area at the corner of E Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Airport Boulevard. Although the TDLR estimated that the renovation would take approximately five months to complete, a Whataburger spokesperson confirmed to MySA that the construction’s start and end dates have changed.

Construction on the project is now slated to begin Monday and is expected to be completed by late May. Initially the state filing said construction was projected to begin in mid-July, and would tentatively be finished by early December.

But now that the construction’s start date has been moved up, the renovation is predicted to be completed sooner. A Whataburger spokesperson said this will not be a complete demolition of the original building, instead serving as a significant renovation.

The scope of work for the renovation includes major improvements to the 6,000-square-foot building, its parking lot and landscape, per the TDLR. Renovation details from Whataburger include a new kitchen, an all-new modern dining space for guests and complete “infrastructure improvements for building efficiency and modernization.”

As it currently stands, the Whataburger at MLK has one of the chain’s older designs with an A-shaped, orange and white striped roof and a white, plaster exterior with rock tiles along the bottom. While this restaurant is temporarily closed, East Austinites can visit more than 20 Whataburger locations in the Austin area, with one of the closest being off Cameron Road and Highway 290.

This article originally published at Whataburger temporarily closes Central Texas shop for $2M remodel.