Author: By Hailey Roden – Staff reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier
Urbana Cafe announced Aug. 4 on social media that its Price Hill shop, located at the Warsaw Avenue Creative Campus, 3114 Warsaw Ave., permanently closed. The coffeehouse held its final day of service July 12 after first opening in February 2025.
While Urbana may have shut down, the space will not sit empty for long. Cream + Sugar Coffeehouse, located at 3546 Montgomery Road in Evanston, will fill Urbana’s former space, set to open within the next month or two. This will be Cream + Sugar’s second Greater Cincinnati location.
Urbana Cafe founder Daniel Noguera told me the new coffeehouse will be taking over the property’s lease, along with Urbana’s Price Hill assets, which Cream + Sugar purchased. He declined to disclose the details of the sale.
3CRE’s Sina Danesh represented Urbana in the deal, while Simone Cocks, owner of Cream + Sugar Coffeehouse, was represented by 3CRE’s Rachel Thompson.
“When Daniel approached me to sell the business assets for this location, our goal was to find an experienced owner in the coffee industry and a buyer who would fit well within the neighborhood and the existing community,” Danesh said. “Simone checked every box.”
Noguera told me he was looking to fill the Urbana space after ultimately deciding to close the Price Hill location in order to shift his focus to Urbana’s wholesale business.
“We’re working right now with a couple of larger accounts on the wholesale side. That is the First Financial Convention Center and the newly opened Fidelity Hotel,” he said. “We have a few more businesses like that coming on the pipeline, and it felt like we needed to pay a little more attention to the wholesale side and just keep the shops that were mature.”
Noguera added he plans to work very closely with Cream + Sugar over the next few weeks to introduce them to the neighborhood and ensure they have a seamless transition into the space.
“One of the things that was very attractive to us about the business and why we chose to transfer the business to them is that they have a leg that is a nonprofit,” he said. “It was a really great match.”
Cream + Sugar boasts several programs designed to help the surrounding community, including an entrepreneurship internship and program called the Collective Vessel, created to empower local youth by providing barista training and hospitality-focused education.
Noguera said he is also planning to open a new Urbana location in the Cincinnati area either in 2027 or 2028, though he is not sure exactly when or where just yet.
Urbana Cafe originally launched at Findlay Market in 2013. In addition to Findlay, the shop has locations in Pendleton, East Walnut Hills and inside the Contemporary Arts Center.
