OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – About two months after a Blackstone pizzeria cited Omaha light rail construction among the reasons for temporarily closing one of its locations, it is closing both restaurants for good.
Noli’s Pizzeria said “we’re closed” in a Facebook post Saturday evening, confirming in the comments that both locations were closing and liking a post asking if they were closed “for good.”
“If another door opens, we will keep you informed,” Noli said in response to a comment on the post.
The message promised that employees would be taken care of.
“Never a question about it,” he said.
In a September interview, Joel Marsh, owner of Noli’s Blackstone, told First Alert 6 that he built the walls of the business with his own hands – and those of his father.
“So it’s more than just a deal for me. It’s very special,” Marsh said at the time.
He closed the restaurant for a few days in September, saying at the time that a broken cooler forced the closure and calling it the latest in a series of problems related to streetcar construction in the neighborhood. He said the company had operated for nine years without such problems and that the problems began when construction of the Omaha streetcar came to Blackstone.
In addition to the financial losses, Marsh also told First Alert 6 in September that he suffered from depression and had difficulty functioning at times over the past two years.
“The cooler breaking isn’t really why we’re in this situation. It’s just what finally stopped us,” Marsh said in a lengthy Facebook post, dated a few days later, on the Noli’s Pizzeria page. “The real problem was the decline in sales for two years during the construction of the tram and the financial losses accumulated during this period.”
Marsh reopened Noli’s Blackstone a few days later, while Noli’s Aksarben location operated under normal business hours throughout this period.
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Reporter Brenna Kiefner contributed to this report.
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