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District Taco founder Osiris Hoil runs a popular, and rapidly expanding, Mexican food chain—and hired the construction company which laid him off to build his stores.

Washington, D.C.-based restaurant chain District Taco is getting a firmer foothold on Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia region, with another lease signed and more planned in the new year.

"I love to show people what's possible — so I never give up," Hoil said. And his story proves it.

"The homegrown taqueria has been growing within the DMV for the past few years, and now is ready to take on a new market."

The D.C.-area taco chain announced Monday it will open a restaurant in the former space of Oriental East in The Blairs Shopping Center at 1312 East West Highway. The popular dim sum spot closed suddenly in September.

Osiris Hoil started District Taco as a food truck in Arlington, Virginia, just outside D.C., in 2009. The fast-casual restaurant, which serves Yucatan-style fare, is now in Virginia, D.C., Maryland, and Pennsylvania. This will be the first Philly location.

Owner Osiris Hoil personally scouted various options in Maryland last year, but he liked Riverdale Park because of the new Whole Foods and its proximity to the University of Maryland.

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At his corner restaurant in a Lee Highway strip mall, Osiris Hoil still pays deference to the Yucatan cooking of his childhood: There are refreshin...