Yes, the owner of the store didn’t renew the lease. Same story with J2 pizza next door, they also lost their lease.
Eddie really is an amazing person. The day before my wedding, I was in a car with my brother driving down Ave J, and he got into a minor fender-bender (actually, a fender-scratcher) in front of the store. Eddie saw me there, said “You’re getting married tomorrow, you don’t have time to deal with this!”, and offered to pay the guy whatever it cost to fix the car so I could go do what I had to do.