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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Urban Pizza Co. opened in November 1997, in the same week as [[Glass Nickel Pizza]] and Pizza Planet. Within a month Chris Martell of the State Journal had reviewed it as &amp;quot;another new contender for the best new pizza in Madison honors&amp;quot;, paired with the new [[Sal’s Pizzeria|Sal&amp;#039;s]] on State Street. Her bottom line: &amp;quot;Pizza doesn&amp;#039;t get much better than this.&amp;quot; The galvanized chicken pizza, a weekly special with basil-marinated chicken, garlic-roasted red potato slices and red onions in a Gorgonzola sauce on a crisp homemade crust, &amp;quot;deserves to become part of the regular menu&amp;quot;; the Green Piece was &amp;quot;a messy but delicious concoction&amp;quot; of broccoli, mushrooms, black olives, onions, cheese and tomato sauce. Pizzas were $3.95 to $5.95 in the &amp;quot;spryte&amp;quot; size and $8.75 to $12.75 for a 12-inch, handed out through a pick-up window, and the Urban Bowl ($4.95) and Greek ($3.75) salads had homemade dressings. The room had &amp;quot;the New York industrial loft look&amp;quot;, at sidewalk level with lots of windows and acid-green walls; the hours were 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday, to midnight Friday and Saturday and 11 to 9 on Sunday&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wsj-1997-12-07-p56&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Becker, D. and Pizza), D. B. a. C. M. (1997, December 7). &amp;quot;Two pizzerias vie for best of Madison&amp;#039;s best new eats.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wisconsin State Journal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 56. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/401422712/ 401422712].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. With the Glass Nickel it &amp;quot;helped introduce Madison to gourmet pizza&amp;quot;, the State Journal wrote in 2004; its owner Bob Sieger had no plans to expand: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not a big operation … We&amp;#039;re a neighborhood thing; we get 20 pizzas — and that&amp;#039;s fine.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Wallmeyer, A. (2004, December 26). &amp;quot;Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wisconsin State Journal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 21. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304975/ 406304975].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The city&amp;#039;s license lists of 2000 to 2003 carried &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Co., Inc. dba Urban Pizza Co.&amp;quot; with Robert J. Cuomo and then the manager Casey Gryske as agent&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2000-05-25-p12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 25). City of Madison license renewal applications, 2000–01 (pages 12–13). &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 12. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191472/ 522191472].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2002-05-21-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2002, May 21). City of Madison license renewal applications, 2002–03 (pages 4–5). &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007659/ 526007659].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. When cheese prices soared in 2001 Gryske said the shop had two suppliers competing, &amp;quot;but we&amp;#039;re already kind of a high-end place so we can&amp;#039;t really raise our prices&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2001-09-05-p1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Ivey, M. (2001, September 5). &amp;quot;Eating up profits: Cheese prices hurt pizza places.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 1. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522190014/ 522190014].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. In October 2003 &amp;quot;The Urban Pizza Company&amp;quot; won the Daily Cardinal&amp;#039;s pizza poll outright with the Adoris, delivered in 27 minutes for $6.85 — &amp;quot;for sure, the prettiest pizza&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Capecchi, L. (2003, October 15). [https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/news/article_540d6bb2-4337-56db-ada4-d745f277abcf.html &amp;quot;Pizza poll delivers.&amp;quot;] &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Daily Cardinal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Urban Pizza Co. opened in November 1997, in the same week as [[Glass Nickel Pizza]] and Pizza Planet. Within a month Chris Martell of the State Journal had reviewed it as &amp;quot;another new contender for the best new pizza in Madison honors&amp;quot;, paired with the new [[Sal’s Pizzeria|Sal&amp;#039;s]] on State Street. Her bottom line: &amp;quot;Pizza doesn&amp;#039;t get much better than this.&amp;quot; The galvanized chicken pizza, a weekly special with basil-marinated chicken, garlic-roasted red potato slices and red onions in a Gorgonzola sauce on a crisp homemade crust, &amp;quot;deserves to become part of the regular menu&amp;quot;; the Green Piece was &amp;quot;a messy but delicious concoction&amp;quot; of broccoli, mushrooms, black olives, onions, cheese and tomato sauce. Pizzas were $3.95 to $5.95 in the &amp;quot;spryte&amp;quot; size and $8.75 to $12.75 for a 12-inch, handed out through a pick-up window, and the Urban Bowl ($4.95) and Greek ($3.75) salads had homemade dressings. The room had &amp;quot;the New York industrial loft look&amp;quot;, at sidewalk level with lots of windows and acid-green walls; the hours were 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday, to midnight Friday and Saturday and 11 to 9 on Sunday&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wsj-1997-12-07-p56&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Becker, D. and Pizza), D. B. a. C. M. (1997, December 7). &amp;quot;Two pizzerias vie for best of Madison&amp;#039;s best new eats.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wisconsin State Journal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 56. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/401422712/ 401422712].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. With the Glass Nickel it &amp;quot;helped introduce Madison to gourmet pizza&amp;quot;, the State Journal wrote in 2004; its owner Bob Sieger had no plans to expand: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not a big operation … We&amp;#039;re a neighborhood thing; we get 20 pizzas — and that&amp;#039;s fine.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Wallmeyer, A. (2004, December 26). &amp;quot;Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wisconsin State Journal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 21. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304975/ 406304975].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The city&amp;#039;s license lists of 2000 to 2003 carried &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Co., Inc. dba Urban Pizza Co.&amp;quot; with Robert J. Cuomo and then the manager Casey Gryske as agent&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2000-05-25-p12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 25). City of Madison license renewal applications, 2000–01 (pages 12–13). &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 12. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191472/ 522191472].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2002-05-21-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2002, May 21). City of Madison license renewal applications, 2002–03 (pages 4–5). &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007659/ 526007659].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. When cheese prices soared in 2001 Gryske said the shop had two suppliers competing, &amp;quot;but we&amp;#039;re already kind of a high-end place so we can&amp;#039;t really raise our prices&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2001-09-05-p1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Ivey, M. (2001, September 5). &amp;quot;Eating up profits: Cheese prices hurt pizza places.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 1. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522190014/ 522190014].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. In October 2003 &amp;quot;The Urban Pizza Company&amp;quot; won the Daily Cardinal&amp;#039;s pizza poll outright with the Adoris, delivered in 27 minutes for $6.85 — &amp;quot;for sure, the prettiest pizza&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Capecchi, L. (2003, October 15). [https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/news/article_540d6bb2-4337-56db-ada4-d745f277abcf.html &amp;quot;Pizza poll delivers.&amp;quot;] &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Daily Cardinal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The city licensed Urban Pizza Co., Inc. for liquor and beer in May 1998 with John S. Manchester as agent&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-1998-05-26-p4&quot;&amp;gt;(1998, May 26). &quot;City of Madison license applications, June 2, 1998 (Ray Fisher, city clerk; published May 25–27).&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 4–5. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/521509437/ 521509437], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/521509449/ 521509449].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and the October 1998 restaurant guide listed it at 250-4797, open to 10 p.m. on weekdays, 11 on Friday and Saturday and 9 on Sunday, with entrées of $10 to $15&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-1998-10-29-p114&quot;&amp;gt;(1998, October 29). &quot;Pizzerias (continued, &#039;Page 31&#039;).&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 114. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522544155/ 522544155].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sieger owned the building by April 2000, when he and Tom Brunner bought the Copper Grid tavern next door at 1509 Monroe St. from its owners of 35 years&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wsj-2000-05-02-p16&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 2). &amp;quot;Copper Grid sold.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wisconsin State Journal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 16. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/407386298/ 407386298].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;; by 2001 the pair were &amp;quot;the Gridiron/Urban Pizza&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2001-11-15-p15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2001, November 15). &amp;quot;Food drive set for Saturday Badger game.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 15. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522228242/ 522228242].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and on football Saturdays Urban Pizza ran a beer garden&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2000-09-01-p6&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, September 1). Fans&amp;#039; reactions to the UW Shoe Box suspensions; one interviewed &amp;#039;standing in front of the Urban Pizza beer garden&amp;#039;. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 6. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522643806/ 522643806].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. Sandra Kallio&amp;#039;s three-star review in May 2003 praised &amp;quot;gourmet pizzas and salads, Sprecher soda and a good selection of bottled beers, fresh-baked cookies, tabletop games and a party room that can be reserved for free&amp;quot;, with counter service and only six parking spaces; a cheese pizza was $8.95 and a specialty $13.49, thin crust from $6.89, and slices $2.50 at lunch and dinner&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Kallio, S. (2003, May 1). &amp;quot;Urban Pizza toppings more than enough.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 75. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527863/ 522527863], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527870/ 522527870].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. That spring Robert Oldenburg applied for the beer and wine license as The Urban Pizza Company, an application the council placed on file&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-03-04-p20&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2003, March 4). &amp;quot;Alcohol License Review Committee hearing notice (April 8, 2003).&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 20. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522653179/ 522653179].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-05-26-p7&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2003, May 26). &amp;quot;Common Council proceedings: ALRC report.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 7. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522445492/ 522445492].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street neighborhood, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison license renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The license, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison license renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sieger owned the building by April 2000, when he and Tom Brunner bought the Copper Grid tavern next door at 1509 Monroe St. from its owners of 35 years&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wsj-2000-05-02-p16&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 2). &amp;quot;Copper Grid sold.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wisconsin State Journal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 16. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/407386298/ 407386298].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;; by 2001 the pair were &amp;quot;the Gridiron/Urban Pizza&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2001-11-15-p15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2001, November 15). &amp;quot;Food drive set for Saturday Badger game.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 15. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522228242/ 522228242].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and on football Saturdays Urban Pizza ran a beer garden&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2000-09-01-p6&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, September 1). Fans&amp;#039; reactions to the UW Shoe Box suspensions; one interviewed &amp;#039;standing in front of the Urban Pizza beer garden&amp;#039;. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 6. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522643806/ 522643806].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. Sandra Kallio&amp;#039;s three-star review in May 2003 praised &amp;quot;gourmet pizzas and salads, Sprecher soda and a good selection of bottled beers, fresh-baked cookies, tabletop games and a party room that can be reserved for free&amp;quot;, with counter service and only six parking spaces; a cheese pizza was $8.95 and a specialty $13.49, thin crust from $6.89, and slices $2.50 at lunch and dinner&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Kallio, S. (2003, May 1). &amp;quot;Urban Pizza toppings more than enough.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 75. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527863/ 522527863], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527870/ 522527870].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. That spring Robert Oldenburg applied for the beer and wine license as The Urban Pizza Company, an application the council placed on file&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-03-04-p20&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2003, March 4). &amp;quot;Alcohol License Review Committee hearing notice (April 8, 2003).&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 20. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522653179/ 522653179].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-05-26-p7&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2003, May 26). &amp;quot;Common Council proceedings: ALRC report.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 7. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522445492/ 522445492].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street neighborhood, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison license renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The license, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison license renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Urban Pizza Co. opened in November 1997, in the same week as [[Glass Nickel Pizza]] and Pizza Planet, and with the Glass Nickel &quot;helped introduce Madison to gourmet pizza&quot;, the State Journal wrote in 2004; its owner Bob Sieger had no plans to expand: &quot;It&#039;s not a big operation … We&#039;re a neighborhood thing; we get 20 pizzas — and that&#039;s fine.&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&quot;&amp;gt;Wallmeyer, A. (2004, December 26). &quot;Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating.&quot; &#039;&#039;Wisconsin State Journal&#039;&#039;. p. 21. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304975/ 406304975].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The city&#039;s license lists of 2000 to 2003 carried &quot;Urban Pizza Co., Inc. dba Urban Pizza Co.&quot; with Robert J. Cuomo and then the manager Casey Gryske as agent&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2000-05-25-p12&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 25). City of Madison license renewal applications, 2000–01 (pages 12–13). &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 12. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191472/ 522191472].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2002-05-21-p4&quot;&amp;gt;(2002, May 21). City of Madison license renewal applications, 2002–03 (pages 4–5). &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007659/ 526007659].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. When cheese prices soared in 2001 Gryske said the shop had two suppliers competing, &quot;but we&#039;re already kind of a high-end place so we can&#039;t really raise our prices&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2001-09-05-p1&quot;&amp;gt;Ivey, M. (2001, September 5). &quot;Eating up profits: Cheese prices hurt pizza places.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 1. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522190014/ 522190014].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. In October 2003 &quot;The Urban Pizza Company&quot; won the Daily Cardinal&#039;s pizza poll outright with the Adoris, delivered in 27 minutes for $6.85 — &quot;for sure, the prettiest pizza&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&quot;&amp;gt;Capecchi, L. (2003, October 15). [https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/news/article_540d6bb2-4337-56db-ada4-d745f277abcf.html &quot;Pizza poll delivers.&quot;] &#039;&#039;The Daily Cardinal&#039;&#039;.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Urban Pizza Co. opened in November 1997, in the same week as [[Glass Nickel Pizza]] and Pizza Planet&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;. Within a month Chris Martell of the State Journal had reviewed it as &quot;another new contender for the best new pizza in Madison honors&quot;&lt;/ins&gt;, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;paired with the new [[Sal’s Pizzeria|Sal&#039;s]] on State Street. Her bottom line: &quot;Pizza doesn&#039;t get much better than this.&quot; The galvanized chicken pizza, a weekly special with basil-marinated chicken, garlic-roasted red potato slices &lt;/ins&gt;and &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;red onions in a Gorgonzola sauce on a crisp homemade crust, &quot;deserves to become part of the regular menu&quot;; the Green Piece was &quot;a messy but delicious concoction&quot; of broccoli, mushrooms, black olives, onions, cheese and tomato sauce. Pizzas were $3.95 to $5.95 in the &quot;spryte&quot; size and $8.75 to $12.75 for a 12-inch, handed out through a pick-up window, and the Urban Bowl ($4.95) and Greek ($3.75) salads had homemade dressings. The room had &quot;the New York industrial loft look&quot;, at sidewalk level &lt;/ins&gt;with &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;lots of windows and acid-green walls; the hours were 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday, to midnight Friday and Saturday and 11 to 9 on Sunday&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-1997-12-07-p56&quot;&amp;gt;Becker, D. and Pizza), D. B. a. C. M. (1997, December 7). &quot;Two pizzerias vie for best of Madison&#039;s best new eats.&quot; &#039;&#039;Wisconsin State Journal&#039;&#039;. p. 56. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/401422712/ 401422712].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. With &lt;/ins&gt;the Glass Nickel &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;it &lt;/ins&gt;&quot;helped introduce Madison to gourmet pizza&quot;, the State Journal wrote in 2004; its owner Bob Sieger had no plans to expand: &quot;It&#039;s not a big operation … We&#039;re a neighborhood thing; we get 20 pizzas — and that&#039;s fine.&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&quot;&amp;gt;Wallmeyer, A. (2004, December 26). &quot;Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating.&quot; &#039;&#039;Wisconsin State Journal&#039;&#039;. p. 21. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304975/ 406304975].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The city&#039;s license lists of 2000 to 2003 carried &quot;Urban Pizza Co., Inc. dba Urban Pizza Co.&quot; with Robert J. Cuomo and then the manager Casey Gryske as agent&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2000-05-25-p12&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 25). City of Madison license renewal applications, 2000–01 (pages 12–13). &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 12. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191472/ 522191472].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2002-05-21-p4&quot;&amp;gt;(2002, May 21). City of Madison license renewal applications, 2002–03 (pages 4–5). &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007659/ 526007659].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. When cheese prices soared in 2001 Gryske said the shop had two suppliers competing, &quot;but we&#039;re already kind of a high-end place so we can&#039;t really raise our prices&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2001-09-05-p1&quot;&amp;gt;Ivey, M. (2001, September 5). &quot;Eating up profits: Cheese prices hurt pizza places.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 1. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522190014/ 522190014].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. In October 2003 &quot;The Urban Pizza Company&quot; won the Daily Cardinal&#039;s pizza poll outright with the Adoris, delivered in 27 minutes for $6.85 — &quot;for sure, the prettiest pizza&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&quot;&amp;gt;Capecchi, L. (2003, October 15). [https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/news/article_540d6bb2-4337-56db-ada4-d745f277abcf.html &quot;Pizza poll delivers.&quot;] &#039;&#039;The Daily Cardinal&#039;&#039;.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sieger owned the building by April 2000, when he and Tom Brunner bought the Copper Grid tavern next door at 1509 Monroe St. from its owners of 35 years&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wsj-2000-05-02-p16&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 2). &amp;quot;Copper Grid sold.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wisconsin State Journal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 16. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/407386298/ 407386298].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;; by 2001 the pair were &amp;quot;the Gridiron/Urban Pizza&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2001-11-15-p15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2001, November 15). &amp;quot;Food drive set for Saturday Badger game.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 15. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522228242/ 522228242].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and on football Saturdays Urban Pizza ran a beer garden&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2000-09-01-p6&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, September 1). Fans&amp;#039; reactions to the UW Shoe Box suspensions; one interviewed &amp;#039;standing in front of the Urban Pizza beer garden&amp;#039;. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 6. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522643806/ 522643806].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. Sandra Kallio&amp;#039;s three-star review in May 2003 praised &amp;quot;gourmet pizzas and salads, Sprecher soda and a good selection of bottled beers, fresh-baked cookies, tabletop games and a party room that can be reserved for free&amp;quot;, with counter service and only six parking spaces; a cheese pizza was $8.95 and a specialty $13.49, thin crust from $6.89, and slices $2.50 at lunch and dinner&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Kallio, S. (2003, May 1). &amp;quot;Urban Pizza toppings more than enough.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 75. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527863/ 522527863], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527870/ 522527870].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. That spring Robert Oldenburg applied for the beer and wine license as The Urban Pizza Company, an application the council placed on file&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-03-04-p20&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2003, March 4). &amp;quot;Alcohol License Review Committee hearing notice (April 8, 2003).&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 20. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522653179/ 522653179].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-05-26-p7&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2003, May 26). &amp;quot;Common Council proceedings: ALRC report.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 7. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522445492/ 522445492].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street neighborhood, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison license renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The license, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison license renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sieger owned the building by April 2000, when he and Tom Brunner bought the Copper Grid tavern next door at 1509 Monroe St. from its owners of 35 years&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wsj-2000-05-02-p16&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 2). &amp;quot;Copper Grid sold.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wisconsin State Journal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 16. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/407386298/ 407386298].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;; by 2001 the pair were &amp;quot;the Gridiron/Urban Pizza&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2001-11-15-p15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2001, November 15). &amp;quot;Food drive set for Saturday Badger game.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 15. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522228242/ 522228242].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and on football Saturdays Urban Pizza ran a beer garden&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2000-09-01-p6&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, September 1). Fans&amp;#039; reactions to the UW Shoe Box suspensions; one interviewed &amp;#039;standing in front of the Urban Pizza beer garden&amp;#039;. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 6. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522643806/ 522643806].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. Sandra Kallio&amp;#039;s three-star review in May 2003 praised &amp;quot;gourmet pizzas and salads, Sprecher soda and a good selection of bottled beers, fresh-baked cookies, tabletop games and a party room that can be reserved for free&amp;quot;, with counter service and only six parking spaces; a cheese pizza was $8.95 and a specialty $13.49, thin crust from $6.89, and slices $2.50 at lunch and dinner&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Kallio, S. (2003, May 1). &amp;quot;Urban Pizza toppings more than enough.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 75. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527863/ 522527863], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527870/ 522527870].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. That spring Robert Oldenburg applied for the beer and wine license as The Urban Pizza Company, an application the council placed on file&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-03-04-p20&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2003, March 4). &amp;quot;Alcohol License Review Committee hearing notice (April 8, 2003).&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 20. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522653179/ 522653179].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2003-05-26-p7&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2003, May 26). &amp;quot;Common Council proceedings: ALRC report.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 7. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522445492/ 522445492].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street neighborhood, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison license renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The license, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison license renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Former Locations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Former Locations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* 1501 Monroe St. (November 1997&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&quot; /&amp;gt; to mid-2007). In November 2004 a new church began meeting next door and converting space &quot;in the Urban Pizza building&quot; into a worship and community center&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2004-11-30-p25&quot;&amp;gt;Bergin, M. (2004, November 30). &quot;Journey of faith.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 25. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522336817/ 522336817], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522336832/ 522336832].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* 1501 Monroe St.&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;, across from the UW Field House &lt;/ins&gt;(November 1997&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-1997-12-07-p56&lt;/ins&gt;&quot; /&amp;gt; to mid-2007)&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;. The telephone number in 1997 was 250-4797&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-1997-12-07-p56&quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;. In November 2004 a new church began meeting next door and converting space &quot;in the Urban Pizza building&quot; into a worship and community center&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2004-11-30-p25&quot;&amp;gt;Bergin, M. (2004, November 30). &quot;Journey of faith.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 25. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522336817/ 522336817], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522336832/ 522336832].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Pizza==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Pizza==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* The galvanized chicken pizza of 1997: basil-marinated chicken, garlic-roasted red potato slices and sliced red onions in a Gorgonzola sauce, with no tomato sauce&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-1997-12-07-p56&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The Adoris: a pesto-smeared tomato slice, roasted red pepper, fresh spinach and an olive oil and garlic sauce, with no tomato sauce and a seasoned crust&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The Adoris: a pesto-smeared tomato slice, roasted red pepper, fresh spinach and an olive oil and garlic sauce, with no tomato sauce and a seasoned crust&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The &quot;Urban original crust&quot;: a buttery deep dish &quot;that&#039;s never soggy or greasy and always generous with the toppings&quot;; a 12-inch feeds three or four. The Maui Dreamin&#039; (Canadian ham, pineapple, Mandarin oranges and sliced almonds) and the GreenPiece (broccoli, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, red onions and black olives) were the reviewer&#039;s favorites in 2003&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The &quot;Urban original crust&quot;: a buttery deep dish &quot;that&#039;s never soggy or greasy and always generous with the toppings&quot;; a 12-inch feeds three or four. The Maui Dreamin&#039; (Canadian ham, pineapple, Mandarin oranges and sliced almonds) and the GreenPiece (broccoli, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, red onions and black olives) were the reviewer&#039;s favorites in 2003&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&quot; /&amp;gt;. The Green Piece was already on the menu in December 1997, then with onions, cheese and tomato sauce&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-1997-12-07-p56&lt;/ins&gt;&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==See also==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==See also==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Urban Pizza Co. opened in November 1997, in the same week as [[Glass Nickel Pizza]] and Pizza Planet, and with the Glass Nickel &quot;helped introduce Madison to gourmet pizza&quot;, the State Journal wrote in 2004; its owner Bob Sieger had no plans to expand: &quot;It&#039;s not a big operation … We&#039;re a neighborhood thing; we get 20 pizzas — and that&#039;s fine.&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&quot;&amp;gt;Wallmeyer, A. (2004, December 26). &quot;Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating.&quot; &#039;&#039;Wisconsin State Journal&#039;&#039;. p. 21. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304975/ 406304975].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The city&#039;s &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licence &lt;/del&gt;lists of 2000 to 2003 carried &quot;Urban Pizza Co., Inc. dba Urban Pizza Co.&quot; with Robert J. Cuomo and then the manager Casey Gryske as agent&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2000-05-25-p12&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 25). City of Madison &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licence &lt;/del&gt;renewal applications, 2000–01 (pages 12–13). &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 12. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191472/ 522191472].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2002-05-21-p4&quot;&amp;gt;(2002, May 21). City of Madison &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licence &lt;/del&gt;renewal applications, 2002–03 (pages 4–5). &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007659/ 526007659].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. When cheese prices soared in 2001 Gryske said the shop had two suppliers competing, &quot;but we&#039;re already kind of a high-end place so we can&#039;t really raise our prices&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2001-09-05-p1&quot;&amp;gt;Ivey, M. (2001, September 5). &quot;Eating up profits: Cheese prices hurt pizza places.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 1. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522190014/ 522190014].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. In October 2003 &quot;The Urban Pizza Company&quot; won the Daily Cardinal&#039;s pizza poll outright with the Adoris, delivered in 27 minutes for $6.85 — &quot;for sure, the prettiest pizza&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&quot;&amp;gt;Capecchi, L. (2003, October 15). [https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/news/article_540d6bb2-4337-56db-ada4-d745f277abcf.html &quot;Pizza poll delivers.&quot;] &#039;&#039;The Daily Cardinal&#039;&#039;.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Urban Pizza Co. opened in November 1997, in the same week as [[Glass Nickel Pizza]] and Pizza Planet, and with the Glass Nickel &quot;helped introduce Madison to gourmet pizza&quot;, the State Journal wrote in 2004; its owner Bob Sieger had no plans to expand: &quot;It&#039;s not a big operation … We&#039;re a neighborhood thing; we get 20 pizzas — and that&#039;s fine.&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&quot;&amp;gt;Wallmeyer, A. (2004, December 26). &quot;Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating.&quot; &#039;&#039;Wisconsin State Journal&#039;&#039;. p. 21. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304975/ 406304975].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The city&#039;s &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;license &lt;/ins&gt;lists of 2000 to 2003 carried &quot;Urban Pizza Co., Inc. dba Urban Pizza Co.&quot; with Robert J. Cuomo and then the manager Casey Gryske as agent&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2000-05-25-p12&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 25). City of Madison &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;license &lt;/ins&gt;renewal applications, 2000–01 (pages 12–13). &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 12. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191472/ 522191472].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2002-05-21-p4&quot;&amp;gt;(2002, May 21). City of Madison &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;license &lt;/ins&gt;renewal applications, 2002–03 (pages 4–5). &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007659/ 526007659].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. When cheese prices soared in 2001 Gryske said the shop had two suppliers competing, &quot;but we&#039;re already kind of a high-end place so we can&#039;t really raise our prices&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2001-09-05-p1&quot;&amp;gt;Ivey, M. (2001, September 5). &quot;Eating up profits: Cheese prices hurt pizza places.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 1. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522190014/ 522190014].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. In October 2003 &quot;The Urban Pizza Company&quot; won the Daily Cardinal&#039;s pizza poll outright with the Adoris, delivered in 27 minutes for $6.85 — &quot;for sure, the prettiest pizza&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&quot;&amp;gt;Capecchi, L. (2003, October 15). [https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/news/article_540d6bb2-4337-56db-ada4-d745f277abcf.html &quot;Pizza poll delivers.&quot;] &#039;&#039;The Daily Cardinal&#039;&#039;.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sieger owned the building by April 2000, when he and Tom Brunner bought the Copper Grid tavern next door at 1509 Monroe St. from its owners of 35 years&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2000-05-02-p16&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 2). &quot;Copper Grid sold.&quot; &#039;&#039;Wisconsin State Journal&#039;&#039;. p. 16. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/407386298/ 407386298].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;; by 2001 the pair were &quot;the Gridiron/Urban Pizza&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2001-11-15-p15&quot;&amp;gt;(2001, November 15). &quot;Food drive set for Saturday Badger game.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 15. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522228242/ 522228242].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and on football Saturdays Urban Pizza ran a beer garden&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2000-09-01-p6&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, September 1). Fans&#039; reactions to the UW Shoe Box suspensions; one interviewed &#039;standing in front of the Urban Pizza beer garden&#039;. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 6. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522643806/ 522643806].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. Sandra Kallio&#039;s three-star review in May 2003 praised &quot;gourmet pizzas and salads, Sprecher soda and a good selection of bottled beers, fresh-baked cookies, tabletop games and a party room that can be reserved for free&quot;, with counter service and only six parking spaces; a cheese pizza was $8.95 and a specialty $13.49, thin crust from $6.89, and slices $2.50 at lunch and dinner&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&quot;&amp;gt;Kallio, S. (2003, May 1). &quot;Urban Pizza toppings more than enough.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 75. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527863/ 522527863], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527870/ 522527870].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. That spring Robert Oldenburg applied for the beer and wine &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licence &lt;/del&gt;as The Urban Pizza Company, an application the council placed on file&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-03-04-p20&quot;&amp;gt;(2003, March 4). &quot;Alcohol License Review Committee hearing notice (April 8, 2003).&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 20. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522653179/ 522653179].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-26-p7&quot;&amp;gt;(2003, May 26). &quot;Common Council proceedings: ALRC report.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 7. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522445492/ 522445492].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;neighbourhood&lt;/del&gt;, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licence &lt;/del&gt;renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licence&lt;/del&gt;, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licence &lt;/del&gt;renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sieger owned the building by April 2000, when he and Tom Brunner bought the Copper Grid tavern next door at 1509 Monroe St. from its owners of 35 years&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2000-05-02-p16&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 2). &quot;Copper Grid sold.&quot; &#039;&#039;Wisconsin State Journal&#039;&#039;. p. 16. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/407386298/ 407386298].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;; by 2001 the pair were &quot;the Gridiron/Urban Pizza&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2001-11-15-p15&quot;&amp;gt;(2001, November 15). &quot;Food drive set for Saturday Badger game.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 15. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522228242/ 522228242].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and on football Saturdays Urban Pizza ran a beer garden&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2000-09-01-p6&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, September 1). Fans&#039; reactions to the UW Shoe Box suspensions; one interviewed &#039;standing in front of the Urban Pizza beer garden&#039;. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 6. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522643806/ 522643806].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. Sandra Kallio&#039;s three-star review in May 2003 praised &quot;gourmet pizzas and salads, Sprecher soda and a good selection of bottled beers, fresh-baked cookies, tabletop games and a party room that can be reserved for free&quot;, with counter service and only six parking spaces; a cheese pizza was $8.95 and a specialty $13.49, thin crust from $6.89, and slices $2.50 at lunch and dinner&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&quot;&amp;gt;Kallio, S. (2003, May 1). &quot;Urban Pizza toppings more than enough.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 75. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527863/ 522527863], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527870/ 522527870].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. That spring Robert Oldenburg applied for the beer and wine &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;license &lt;/ins&gt;as The Urban Pizza Company, an application the council placed on file&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-03-04-p20&quot;&amp;gt;(2003, March 4). &quot;Alcohol License Review Committee hearing notice (April 8, 2003).&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 20. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522653179/ 522653179].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-26-p7&quot;&amp;gt;(2003, May 26). &quot;Common Council proceedings: ALRC report.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 7. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522445492/ 522445492].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;neighborhood&lt;/ins&gt;, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;license &lt;/ins&gt;renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;license&lt;/ins&gt;, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;license &lt;/ins&gt;renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The corner belonged to the Madison architect and developer Bob Sieger, whose properties there included &quot;the Urban Journey pizza and coffee shop and the Grid Iron tavern&quot;. From 2005 he tried to win approval for Fieldhouse Station, a $12 million retail and condominium project on the site; the plans stalled in the Plan Commission in 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-01-09-p31&quot;&amp;gt;(2007, January 9). Fieldhouse Station on hold: developer Bob Sieger owns the Monroe–Regent corner properties including the Urban Journey pizza and coffee shop. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 31. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522447403/ 522447403].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-07-10-p10&quot;&amp;gt;(2007, July 10). &quot;Fieldhouse gridlock: Regent-Monroe plan still stalled.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 10. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522435345/ 522435345].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. By then the pizzeria was gone: the city&#039;s list of businesses whose liquor &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licences &lt;/del&gt;were not renewed by July 1, 2007, carried &quot;Urban Pizza (closed)&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-07-03-p3&quot;&amp;gt;(2007, July 3). Businesses whose liquor &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licences &lt;/del&gt;were not renewed by July 1, 2007, including &quot;Urban Pizza (closed)&quot; and Casa Bianca. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 3. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522433714/ 522433714].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and the project site was described a week later as &quot;the former Urban Pizza and Copper Grid Tavern&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-07-10-p10&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The corner belonged to the Madison architect and developer Bob Sieger, whose properties there included &quot;the Urban Journey pizza and coffee shop and the Grid Iron tavern&quot;. From 2005 he tried to win approval for Fieldhouse Station, a $12 million retail and condominium project on the site; the plans stalled in the Plan Commission in 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-01-09-p31&quot;&amp;gt;(2007, January 9). Fieldhouse Station on hold: developer Bob Sieger owns the Monroe–Regent corner properties including the Urban Journey pizza and coffee shop. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 31. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522447403/ 522447403].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-07-10-p10&quot;&amp;gt;(2007, July 10). &quot;Fieldhouse gridlock: Regent-Monroe plan still stalled.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 10. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522435345/ 522435345].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. By then the pizzeria was gone: the city&#039;s list of businesses whose liquor &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licenses &lt;/ins&gt;were not renewed by July 1, 2007, carried &quot;Urban Pizza (closed)&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-07-03-p3&quot;&amp;gt;(2007, July 3). Businesses whose liquor &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;licenses &lt;/ins&gt;were not renewed by July 1, 2007, including &quot;Urban Pizza (closed)&quot; and Casa Bianca. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 3. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522433714/ 522433714].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and the project site was described a week later as &quot;the former Urban Pizza and Copper Grid Tavern&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-07-10-p10&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Former Locations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Former Locations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* 1501 Monroe St. (November 1997&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&quot; /&amp;gt; to mid-2007). In November 2004 a new church began meeting next door and converting space &quot;in the Urban Pizza building&quot; into a worship and community &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;centre&lt;/del&gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2004-11-30-p25&quot;&amp;gt;Bergin, M. (2004, November 30). &quot;Journey of faith.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 25. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522336817/ 522336817], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522336832/ 522336832].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* 1501 Monroe St. (November 1997&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&quot; /&amp;gt; to mid-2007). In November 2004 a new church began meeting next door and converting space &quot;in the Urban Pizza building&quot; into a worship and community &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;center&lt;/ins&gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2004-11-30-p25&quot;&amp;gt;Bergin, M. (2004, November 30). &quot;Journey of faith.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 25. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522336817/ 522336817], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522336832/ 522336832].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Pizza==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Pizza==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The Adoris: a pesto-smeared tomato slice, roasted red pepper, fresh spinach and an olive oil and garlic sauce, with no tomato sauce and a seasoned crust&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The Adoris: a pesto-smeared tomato slice, roasted red pepper, fresh spinach and an olive oil and garlic sauce, with no tomato sauce and a seasoned crust&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The &quot;Urban original crust&quot;: a buttery deep dish &quot;that&#039;s never soggy or greasy and always generous with the toppings&quot;; a 12-inch feeds three or four. The Maui Dreamin&#039; (Canadian ham, pineapple, Mandarin oranges and sliced almonds) and the GreenPiece (broccoli, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, red onions and black olives) were the reviewer&#039;s &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;favourites &lt;/del&gt;in 2003&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The &quot;Urban original crust&quot;: a buttery deep dish &quot;that&#039;s never soggy or greasy and always generous with the toppings&quot;; a 12-inch feeds three or four. The Maui Dreamin&#039; (Canadian ham, pineapple, Mandarin oranges and sliced almonds) and the GreenPiece (broccoli, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, red onions and black olives) were the reviewer&#039;s &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;favorites &lt;/ins&gt;in 2003&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==See also==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==See also==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Jacques</name></author>
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		<title>Jacques: Add the 2000 Copper Grid sale, the 2003 review and licence filing, and the 2004 church</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Add the 2000 Copper Grid sale, the 2003 review and licence filing, and the 2004 church&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Urban Pizza Co. opened in November 1997, in the same week as [[Glass Nickel Pizza]] and Pizza Planet, and with the Glass Nickel &amp;quot;helped introduce Madison to gourmet pizza&amp;quot;, the State Journal wrote in 2004; its owner Bob Sieger had no plans to expand: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not a big operation … We&amp;#039;re a neighborhood thing; we get 20 pizzas — and that&amp;#039;s fine.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Wallmeyer, A. (2004, December 26). &amp;quot;Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wisconsin State Journal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 21. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304975/ 406304975].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The city&amp;#039;s licence lists of 2000 to 2003 carried &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Co., Inc. dba Urban Pizza Co.&amp;quot; with Robert J. Cuomo and then the manager Casey Gryske as agent&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2000-05-25-p12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 25). City of Madison licence renewal applications, 2000–01 (pages 12–13). &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 12. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191472/ 522191472].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2002-05-21-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2002, May 21). City of Madison licence renewal applications, 2002–03 (pages 4–5). &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007659/ 526007659].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. When cheese prices soared in 2001 Gryske said the shop had two suppliers competing, &amp;quot;but we&amp;#039;re already kind of a high-end place so we can&amp;#039;t really raise our prices&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2001-09-05-p1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Ivey, M. (2001, September 5). &amp;quot;Eating up profits: Cheese prices hurt pizza places.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 1. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522190014/ 522190014].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. In October 2003 &amp;quot;The Urban Pizza Company&amp;quot; won the Daily Cardinal&amp;#039;s pizza poll outright with the Adoris, delivered in 27 minutes for $6.85 — &amp;quot;for sure, the prettiest pizza&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Capecchi, L. (2003, October 15). [https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/news/article_540d6bb2-4337-56db-ada4-d745f277abcf.html &amp;quot;Pizza poll delivers.&amp;quot;] &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Daily Cardinal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Urban Pizza Co. opened in November 1997, in the same week as [[Glass Nickel Pizza]] and Pizza Planet, and with the Glass Nickel &amp;quot;helped introduce Madison to gourmet pizza&amp;quot;, the State Journal wrote in 2004; its owner Bob Sieger had no plans to expand: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not a big operation … We&amp;#039;re a neighborhood thing; we get 20 pizzas — and that&amp;#039;s fine.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Wallmeyer, A. (2004, December 26). &amp;quot;Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wisconsin State Journal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 21. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304975/ 406304975].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The city&amp;#039;s licence lists of 2000 to 2003 carried &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Co., Inc. dba Urban Pizza Co.&amp;quot; with Robert J. Cuomo and then the manager Casey Gryske as agent&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2000-05-25-p12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 25). City of Madison licence renewal applications, 2000–01 (pages 12–13). &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 12. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191472/ 522191472].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2002-05-21-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2002, May 21). City of Madison licence renewal applications, 2002–03 (pages 4–5). &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007659/ 526007659].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. When cheese prices soared in 2001 Gryske said the shop had two suppliers competing, &amp;quot;but we&amp;#039;re already kind of a high-end place so we can&amp;#039;t really raise our prices&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2001-09-05-p1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Ivey, M. (2001, September 5). &amp;quot;Eating up profits: Cheese prices hurt pizza places.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 1. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522190014/ 522190014].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. In October 2003 &amp;quot;The Urban Pizza Company&amp;quot; won the Daily Cardinal&amp;#039;s pizza poll outright with the Adoris, delivered in 27 minutes for $6.85 — &amp;quot;for sure, the prettiest pizza&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Capecchi, L. (2003, October 15). [https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/news/article_540d6bb2-4337-56db-ada4-d745f277abcf.html &amp;quot;Pizza poll delivers.&amp;quot;] &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Daily Cardinal&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street neighbourhood, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison licence renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The licence, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison licence renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Sieger owned the building by April 2000, when he and Tom Brunner bought the Copper Grid tavern next door at 1509 Monroe St. from its owners of 35 years&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2000-05-02-p16&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 2). &quot;Copper Grid sold.&quot; &#039;&#039;Wisconsin State Journal&#039;&#039;. p. 16. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/407386298/ 407386298].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;; by 2001 the pair were &quot;the Gridiron/Urban Pizza&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2001-11-15-p15&quot;&amp;gt;(2001, November 15). &quot;Food drive set for Saturday Badger game.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 15. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522228242/ 522228242].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and on football Saturdays Urban Pizza ran a beer garden&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2000-09-01-p6&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, September 1). Fans&#039; reactions to the UW Shoe Box suspensions; one interviewed &#039;standing in front of the Urban Pizza beer garden&#039;. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 6. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522643806/ 522643806].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. Sandra Kallio&#039;s three-star review in May 2003 praised &quot;gourmet pizzas and salads, Sprecher soda and a good selection of bottled beers, fresh-baked cookies, tabletop games and a party room that can be reserved for free&quot;, with counter service and only six parking spaces; a cheese pizza was $8.95 and a specialty $13.49, thin crust from $6.89, and slices $2.50 at lunch and dinner&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&quot;&amp;gt;Kallio, S. (2003, May 1). &quot;Urban Pizza toppings more than enough.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 75. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527863/ 522527863], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522527870/ 522527870].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. That spring Robert Oldenburg applied for the beer and wine licence as The Urban Pizza Company, an application the council placed on file&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-03-04-p20&quot;&amp;gt;(2003, March 4). &quot;Alcohol License Review Committee hearing notice (April 8, 2003).&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 20. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522653179/ 522653179].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-26-p7&quot;&amp;gt;(2003, May 26). &quot;Common Council proceedings: ALRC report.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 7. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522445492/ 522445492].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. &lt;/ins&gt;An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street neighbourhood, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison licence renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The licence, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison licence renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The corner belonged to the Madison architect and developer Bob Sieger, whose properties there included &amp;quot;the Urban Journey pizza and coffee shop and the Grid Iron tavern&amp;quot;. From 2005 he tried to win approval for Fieldhouse Station, a $12 million retail and condominium project on the site; the plans stalled in the Plan Commission in 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-01-09-p31&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, January 9). Fieldhouse Station on hold: developer Bob Sieger owns the Monroe–Regent corner properties including the Urban Journey pizza and coffee shop. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 31. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522447403/ 522447403].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-07-10-p10&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, July 10). &amp;quot;Fieldhouse gridlock: Regent-Monroe plan still stalled.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 10. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522435345/ 522435345].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. By then the pizzeria was gone: the city&amp;#039;s list of businesses whose liquor licences were not renewed by July 1, 2007, carried &amp;quot;Urban Pizza (closed)&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-07-03-p3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, July 3). Businesses whose liquor licences were not renewed by July 1, 2007, including &amp;quot;Urban Pizza (closed)&amp;quot; and Casa Bianca. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 3. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522433714/ 522433714].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and the project site was described a week later as &amp;quot;the former Urban Pizza and Copper Grid Tavern&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-07-10-p10&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The corner belonged to the Madison architect and developer Bob Sieger, whose properties there included &amp;quot;the Urban Journey pizza and coffee shop and the Grid Iron tavern&amp;quot;. From 2005 he tried to win approval for Fieldhouse Station, a $12 million retail and condominium project on the site; the plans stalled in the Plan Commission in 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-01-09-p31&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, January 9). Fieldhouse Station on hold: developer Bob Sieger owns the Monroe–Regent corner properties including the Urban Journey pizza and coffee shop. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 31. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522447403/ 522447403].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-07-10-p10&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, July 10). &amp;quot;Fieldhouse gridlock: Regent-Monroe plan still stalled.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 10. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522435345/ 522435345].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. By then the pizzeria was gone: the city&amp;#039;s list of businesses whose liquor licences were not renewed by July 1, 2007, carried &amp;quot;Urban Pizza (closed)&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-07-03-p3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, July 3). Businesses whose liquor licences were not renewed by July 1, 2007, including &amp;quot;Urban Pizza (closed)&amp;quot; and Casa Bianca. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 3. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522433714/ 522433714].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and the project site was described a week later as &amp;quot;the former Urban Pizza and Copper Grid Tavern&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-07-10-p10&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Former Locations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Former Locations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* 1501 Monroe St. (November 1997&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&quot; /&amp;gt; to mid-2007).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* 1501 Monroe St. (November 1997&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&quot; /&amp;gt; to mid-2007)&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;. In November 2004 a new church began meeting next door and converting space &quot;in the Urban Pizza building&quot; into a worship and community centre&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2004-11-30-p25&quot;&amp;gt;Bergin, M. (2004, November 30). &quot;Journey of faith.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 25. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522336817/ 522336817], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522336832/ 522336832].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Pizza==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Pizza==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The Adoris: a pesto-smeared tomato slice, roasted red pepper, fresh spinach and an olive oil and garlic sauce, with no tomato sauce and a seasoned crust&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* The Adoris: a pesto-smeared tomato slice, roasted red pepper, fresh spinach and an olive oil and garlic sauce, with no tomato sauce and a seasoned crust&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* The &quot;Urban original crust&quot;: a buttery deep dish &quot;that&#039;s never soggy or greasy and always generous with the toppings&quot;; a 12-inch feeds three or four. The Maui Dreamin&#039; (Canadian ham, pineapple, Mandarin oranges and sliced almonds) and the GreenPiece (broccoli, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, red onions and black olives) were the reviewer&#039;s favourites in 2003&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2003-05-01-p75&quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==See also==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==See also==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Jacques: Add the 2000–2004 years from the newspaper research recorded in the database; earlier text kept</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Add the 2000–2004 years from the newspaper research recorded in the database; earlier text kept&lt;/p&gt;
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l1&quot;&gt;Line 1:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Urban Pizza Cafe&#039;&#039;&#039; (also &#039;&#039;&#039;Urban Pizza Co.&#039;&#039;&#039; and, in a 2007 story, &#039;&#039;&#039;Urban Journey&#039;&#039;&#039;) was a pizza and coffee shop at 1501 Monroe St., on the corner of Monroe and Regent streets across from Camp Randall Stadium, from &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;at least 2004 &lt;/del&gt;until 2007.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Urban Pizza Cafe&#039;&#039;&#039; (also &#039;&#039;&#039;Urban Pizza Co.&#039;&#039;&#039; and, in a 2007 story, &#039;&#039;&#039;Urban Journey&#039;&#039;&#039;) was a pizza and coffee shop at 1501 Monroe St., on the corner of Monroe and Regent streets across from Camp Randall Stadium, from &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;November 1997 &lt;/ins&gt;until 2007.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==History==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Urban Pizza Co. opened in November 1997, in the same week as [[Glass Nickel Pizza]] and Pizza Planet, and with the Glass Nickel &quot;helped introduce Madison to gourmet pizza&quot;, the State Journal wrote in 2004; its owner Bob Sieger had no plans to expand: &quot;It&#039;s not a big operation … We&#039;re a neighborhood thing; we get 20 pizzas — and that&#039;s fine.&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-2004-12-26-p21&quot;&amp;gt;Wallmeyer, A. (2004, December 26). &quot;Pizzas with pizzazz: Gourmet pizza places are proliferating.&quot; &#039;&#039;Wisconsin State Journal&#039;&#039;. p. 21. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304963/ 406304963], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/406304975/ 406304975].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; The city&#039;s licence lists of 2000 to 2003 carried &quot;Urban Pizza Co., Inc. dba Urban Pizza Co.&quot; with Robert J. Cuomo and then the manager Casey Gryske as agent&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2000-05-25-p12&quot;&amp;gt;(2000, May 25). City of Madison licence renewal applications, 2000–01 (pages 12–13). &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 12. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191464/ 522191464], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522191472/ 522191472].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2002-05-21-p4&quot;&amp;gt;(2002, May 21). City of Madison licence renewal applications, 2002–03 (pages 4–5). &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007657/ 526007657], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/526007659/ 526007659].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. When cheese prices soared in 2001 Gryske said the shop had two suppliers competing, &quot;but we&#039;re already kind of a high-end place so we can&#039;t really raise our prices&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;ct-2001-09-05-p1&quot;&amp;gt;Ivey, M. (2001, September 5). &quot;Eating up profits: Cheese prices hurt pizza places.&quot; &#039;&#039;The Capital Times&#039;&#039;. p. 1. Newspapers.com images [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522189987/ 522189987], [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522190014/ 522190014].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. In October 2003 &quot;The Urban Pizza Company&quot; won the Daily Cardinal&#039;s pizza poll outright with the Adoris, delivered in 27 minutes for $6.85 — &quot;for sure, the prettiest pizza&quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&quot;&amp;gt;Capecchi, L. (2003, October 15). [https://madison.com/daily-cardinal/news/article_540d6bb2-4337-56db-ada4-d745f277abcf.html &quot;Pizza poll delivers.&quot;] &#039;&#039;The Daily Cardinal&#039;&#039;.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street neighbourhood, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison licence renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The licence, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison licence renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street neighbourhood, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison licence renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The licence, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison licence renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l7&quot;&gt;Line 7:&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot;&gt;Line 9:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Former Locations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==Former Locations==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* 1501 Monroe St. (&lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;by April &lt;/del&gt;2004 to mid-2007).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* 1501 Monroe St. (&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;November 1997&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;wsj-&lt;/ins&gt;2004&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;-12-26-p21&quot; /&amp;gt; &lt;/ins&gt;to mid-2007)&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;==Pizza==&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-side-deleted&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* The Adoris: a pesto-smeared tomato slice, roasted red pepper, fresh spinach and an olive oil and garlic sauce, with no tomato sauce and a seasoned crust&amp;lt;ref name=&quot;dc-2003-10-15-pizza-poll&quot; /&amp;gt;&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==See also==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==See also==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Jacques: New article from the 2005–2009 newspaper research recorded in the database</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;New article from the 2005–2009 newspaper research recorded in the database&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Urban Pizza Cafe&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (also &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Urban Pizza Co.&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and, in a 2007 story, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Urban Journey&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;) was a pizza and coffee shop at 1501 Monroe St., on the corner of Monroe and Regent streets across from Camp Randall Stadium, from at least 2004 until 2007.&lt;br /&gt;
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==History==&lt;br /&gt;
An Urban Pizza employee appears in a Capital Times story of April 2004 about the Regent Street neighbourhood, and in June 2004 the city council approved a change of corporate name, &amp;quot;Urban Pizza Cafe, LLC, formerly Urban Pizza Co., Inc., dba Urban Pizza Co., 1501 Monroe Street&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2005, May 23). City of Madison licence renewal list, May 2005 (continued): Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Pizzeria Uno, Glass Nickel, Pizza Di Roma, Urban Pizza Cafe. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 5. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/525987738/ 525987738].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. The licence, with Robert Sieger as agent, was renewed each May from 2005 to 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2005-05-23-p5&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-05-28-p4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, May 28). City of Madison licence renewal list, May 2007: Rocky Rococo (8 stores), Cafe Porta Alba, Casa Bianca, Pizza Pit, Urban Pizza Cafe, Pizza Di Roma, Pizza Hut, Unos, Roman Candle. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 4. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/529156052/ 529156052].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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The corner belonged to the Madison architect and developer Bob Sieger, whose properties there included &amp;quot;the Urban Journey pizza and coffee shop and the Grid Iron tavern&amp;quot;. From 2005 he tried to win approval for Fieldhouse Station, a $12 million retail and condominium project on the site; the plans stalled in the Plan Commission in 2007&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-01-09-p31&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, January 9). Fieldhouse Station on hold: developer Bob Sieger owns the Monroe–Regent corner properties including the Urban Journey pizza and coffee shop. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 31. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522447403/ 522447403].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-07-10-p10&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, July 10). &amp;quot;Fieldhouse gridlock: Regent-Monroe plan still stalled.&amp;quot; &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 10. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522435345/ 522435345].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;. By then the pizzeria was gone: the city&amp;#039;s list of businesses whose liquor licences were not renewed by July 1, 2007, carried &amp;quot;Urban Pizza (closed)&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-07-03-p3&amp;quot;&amp;gt;(2007, July 3). Businesses whose liquor licences were not renewed by July 1, 2007, including &amp;quot;Urban Pizza (closed)&amp;quot; and Casa Bianca. &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Capital Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. p. 3. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/522433714/ 522433714].&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;, and the project site was described a week later as &amp;quot;the former Urban Pizza and Copper Grid Tavern&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;ct-2007-07-10-p10&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Former Locations==&lt;br /&gt;
* 1501 Monroe St. (by April 2004 to mid-2007).&lt;br /&gt;
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==See also==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Item:Q1918|Urban Pizza Cafe in the Madison Pizza Wiki database]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Notes==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;references /&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Jacques</name></author>
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