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Council amends one liquor license, approves another and lays over a third after neighborhood concerns
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Summary
The council amended a supermarket license to ban small single‑container alcohol sales near a high school, approved a pizza parlor license, and laid over a lounge license for one week to allow the applicant to secure written parking agreements with neighbors.
The Omaha City Council handled multiple liquor license items in a single block of the meeting.
Item 6: Nowhere Lounge (3502 Leavenworth St.) — public hearing opened for a Class C liquor license. Applicant Michael Robery, speaking for Cortez Bar doing business as Nowhere Lounge, described hours (opening at 3 p.m. Thursdays; later closings Friday–Sunday), a towing plan for overnight parked cars and efforts to lease adjacent parking. Council members pressed for written lease agreements with neighboring businesses after residents and an adjacent business raised concerns about overnight parking. Council member Hugg said he was "not comfortable supporting this today" without concrete lease evidence and moved to lay the item over for one week. The motion to lay over passed on roll call 7–0.
Item 7: Super Mercado Nuestra Familia (2323 L Street) — remote applicant Cindy Davenport agreed to a council amendment restricting single‑container alcohol sales near a nearby high school. The clerk read the amendment: no sales of single containers less than 32 ounces of beer and no sales of distilled spirits under 375 milliliters. Davenport confirmed she would not carry those smaller products at this location. Council passed the amendment and then approved the license as amended; the roll call recorded the amendment vote 6–1 and the final motion passed 6–1.
Item 8: Very Important Pizza (2502 Farnham Street) — applicant Dylan Espinosa described a New York‑style pizza shop with limited alcohol service (seven beers on tap and three batched cocktails) and daytime‑oriented hours; council welcomed the new business and approved the license unanimously (7–0).
Next steps: Nowhere Lounge returns to council after the applicant secures written parking/leasing assurances; Super Mercado’s license will include the no‑single‑container condition as read into the record.
