Stampede on Rush: Frye Boots Taking over Jilly's Piano Bar

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Longtime coming for Jilly's and Back Room which, with their clunky sidewalk patio furniture have been the bittersweet taste of tourism debauchery in the Viagra Triangle for years. Welp, now they're closed and guess what: Frye (as in Frye Boots) is opening there. The building will be demolished and replaced with a 6,100-square-foot shoe-topia to be open sometime next summer.
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