The City Commission granted both a beer and wine and a distilled spirits liquor license to Paul Nair, the owner of Savi Provisions, this past Monday night. As previously reported, Nair is planning to open a Savi Provisions in the former Cooks Warehouse space downtown.
With the application, we got a bit more info on the layout of the new store and how it will legally accommodate the sale of “distilled spirits”, which can’t be sold in grocery stores in the state of Georgia.
In short, spirits retail will be sold in a separate space, as detailed in the application…
This business is being created out of a portion of the former Cook’s Warehouse space. It will be separate from the rest of the retail area and have separate ingress and egress to the exterior of the building as required by {3) above. The point of sale will also be separate from other business uses in the remainder of the original space.
Renovations to the space are currently underway, according to the application. An AJC article from June noted that Savi would be opening in Decatur “this summer”.
Seems like we should be able to get a hidden passageway a la Little Shop of Stories to take one from the food/beer/wine side into the “spirits” realm.