Park Ridge · Ordinance
Cigar lounge liquor and BYOB licenses added at 626 Busse Highway
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The City Council adopted, on its consent agenda, the final reading of an ordinance adding one specialty liquor sales license and one specialty BYOB license for the Embassy Cigar Lounge at 626 Busse Highway. The staff memo puts the price of the two licenses at $1,500 in total. The consent agenda carried 7–0.
Documented status: Approved (recorded), Jul 21 2025. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.
What changed, and when did it take effect?
· Approved · Recorded in minutes
City Council adopts the license ordinance
Meeting date: Jul 21 2025. Address: 626 Busse Highway. Applicant: 7TH FLOOR HOSPITALITY GROUP LLC. Item VI: the motion carried (7 to 0).
p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-07-21, City Council, Jul 21 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 1 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-07-21, City Council, Jul 21 2025. Open the quote and source.
p. 2 · Approved minutes of City Council minutes, 2025-07-21, City Council, Jul 21 2025. Open the quote and source.
What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?
Amounts are read from the cited pages and added up by code. A recommendation, an award or an authorized amount does not establish that money was paid.
Fee
$1,500
An unstated scope
p. 1 · Staff memo of Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance authorizing the addition of one (1) Class S5 Liquor Sales License and one (1) Class S5 BYOB License for 7th Floor Hospitality Group LLC, dba Embassy Cigar Lounge, located at 626 Busse Highway (Memorandum), City Council, Jul 21 2025. Open the quote and source.
Contracts, payments and completion
No contract, payment or completion record is published for this item. Approval alone does not establish completion.
Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?
Official identifiers and exhibit listings connect records. A name, an address or distance alone only suggests a connection.
Organizations and public bodies
- 7TH FLOOR HOSPITALITY GROUP LLC (applicant)
What remains unresolved?
No condition or deadline is published for this item. That is a limit of the published research, not evidence that none exist.
Open questions
No open question is recorded for this item.
What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?
No conflicting records are published for this item.
After the decision: permits at this address
Permits dated after Jul 21, 2025 (City Council adopts the license ordinance).
Computed by code from the building permits in the Park Ridge property release (the county permit feed), as of Nov 1, 2026. A permit shows that work was authorized, not that it was completed, and no permit recorded does not establish that nothing was built. A parcel matched by address is nominated by the address written in the record; that does not prove the record concerns it.
Matched by address: 626 Busse Highway
626 Busse Hwy1 permit recorded after Jul 21, 2025 through Nov 1, 2026: Other; $257,500 in declared value; dated Feb 4, 2026.
Permits recorded after the decision at 626 Busse Hwy Issued Type Work Status Declared value Feb 4, 2026 Other REMODEL HIGH-END, UPSCALE CIGAR LOUNGE Open $257,500
Official source records
- City Council minutes, 2025-07-21
City Council, Jul 21 2025
- Approve the Final Reading of an Ordinance authorizing the addition of one (1) Class S5 Liquor Sales License and one (1) Class S5 BYOB License for 7th Floor Hospitality Group LLC, dba Embassy Cigar Lounge, located at 626 Busse Highway (Memorandum)
City Council, Jul 21 2025
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