COLORADO SPRINGS — Sandy’s Restaurant is already bustling for the lunch hour and it’s not even noon yet. Customers fill the tables in the snug dining room, digging into greasy spoon favorites like the cowboy burger, Tony’s burrito and the special of the day — Fruity Pebbles cheesecake conchas.

Among General Manager Sam Avina’s regulars are members of the 1,400-person U.S. Space Command, who work just a few hundred yards away inside the secure perimeter of Peterson Space Force Base. Over the next few years, their visits to his diner will dwindle as President Donald Trump’s decision to move the command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville , Alabama, takes shape.

But the loss of those customers won’t threaten the long-term viability of Sandy’s, which has been in operation on Space Village

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