Speaking of juice-purveying interlopers, someone should re-open the Gravity Bar...

Sad to hear about Neptune. There's a fancy, multi-unit, ground-floor-retail building that's being planned for the site where Neptune and the other stores used to stand. The developers of that project should be pleading with the folks from Neptune to take up shop in one of the new ground-floor spaces, and they should offer a sweetheart deal that makes it worth their while.

I'm sure all the Neptune regulars have dispersed and found other places in the neighborhood. Neptune or no Neptune, my favorite Greenwood coffee shop has been Monkey Grind Espresso Bar. Fabulous coffee, nice selection of food, welcoming atmosphere. Still not quite the expansive space that Neptune was. There's a certain magic about those big, old spaces that would be hard to re-create, even if they do change their minds and come back to the neighborhood.

@2, Yeah but those sort of developments usually structure their commercial lease requirements such that a Neptune type operation is excluded--the rent, minimum size, etc.

Also, the key to many successful businesses is to start by buying one that's floundering for pennies on the dollar--like the most recent owners of Neptune did, and then work your ass off, not necessarily any harder that the poor schmuck before you did, but with a different financial structure in place.