The former Comfy Cow location will become a bar, but we have no further details.

Revive Property Management LLC is the building owner -- that's Lincoln Ogden, whose Compass Project Management had/has an office upstairs at the former Comfy Cow, which closed earlier this year.

If the Green Mouse's research is correct, NA Main Street LLC is a company formed to operate a bar in this space. We're told Ogden is purchasing this license for use by the future tenants: "some guys from Louisville."

If nothing else, the new operators should be flush with refrigeration equipment in an ex-ice cream shop. Their local board hearing is Tuesday, July 3.

If they decide to call it a speakeasy, there'll be tantrums aplenty. Apart from this, welcome to New Albany -- whoever you are.

Thanks for the tip, T.

A heifer is down: Comfy Cow joins Feast BBQ on list of "former" downtown New Albany businesses.

Comfy Cow's last day of business is today. It's hard to determine which "closing soon" rumor began making the rounds first, Comfy Cow or Feast, and it no longer matters. Business decisions are business decisions, and the globe keeps spinning.

But: Are we to discern a worrisome trend?

No; at least not yet.

However, and you can call it what you will, a food and drink shift (or adjustment, or rationalization) obviously is underway downtown as April approaches. As with "craft" beer, the bubble isn't bursting, but the landscape is being reformatted.

Yesterday over at Everything Tom May, Danielle Grady conducted post-mortems for Feast and the Glass Gypsy, a shop at Underground Station. Steve Resch's viewpoint hits the center of the target, at least to me.

BIZ CLOSINGS: Three businesses, including Feast BBQ New Albany, call it quits in SoIn

... (Feast BBQ owner Ryan) Rogers declined to comment further when the News and Tribune reached out, but developer Steve Resch, who renovated Feast’s building and sold it to Rogers, said that the restaurant was doing well.

"They closed that because they want to concentrate on the Louisville market,” he said. “Feast was still profitable" ...

... Resch sold Rogers the Feast building two years ago, the developer said. When Resch bought the structure in 2010, it had been vacant since the mid-1980s. He renovated it, just like he’s done with the current Wick’s Pizza, Bella Roma, Bank Street Brewhouse, Gospel Bird, Theatreworks of SoIn and Hull & High Water buildings.

While some Southern Indiana businesses are closing, Resch believes that the area and its restaurant scene are still thriving. Another developer, Matt Chalfant is working on a building that will soon be home to a restaurant from the owner of The Exchange, Longboard’s Taco & Tiki. Resch is also renovating an old bar along Market Street that will become Pints & Union, a United Kingdom-inspired pub.

On Comfy Cow in downtown New Albany.

Ian "Exchange" Hall has been getting much well-deserved press for the Comfy Cow renovation and prospective opening later this year, and amid this crappiest of recent winters, other food & drink start-ups have moved forward: Bread and Breakfast, Muscle Monkey and Primo's spring (please, soon) to mind.

Entrepreneurs continue to invest ... and the streets still run one way, defeating efforts to enhance walkability between the residential areas we have and the attractions downtown.

As I see Lincoln Ogden's crew shaping the building this winter, I'm thinking back to March of 2013, when Steve Resch was conducting a sidewalk yard sale, cleaning out the detritus of ages ... including an increasingly rare, old-school "golden gate" beer keg.

By the way, how's New Albany's downtown indie economic development augmentation plan coming?

(pins drop ... crickets chirp ... somewhere, an industrial park occupant is fluffed)

First Comfy Cow franchise location to open this spring in New Albany, by Jenna Esarey (CJ)

 ... “I’ve heard people say New Albany is going to be the next Bardstown Road,” Hall said. “No it’s not. It’s going to be a whole lot cooler.”

Comfy Cow (now officially?) coming to 109 E. Market.

Photo courtesy of Ian Hall.

Greener pasturers? Comfy Cow jumps the fence to New Albany, by Steve Kaufman (Insider Louisville)