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Adams Wine Shop is the specialty bottle store connected to restaurant Alta Adams in the burgeoning West Adams neighborhood.

He’s also an entrepreneur at heart whose own irritation over a city regulation, which required him to install a mop sink in his carpeted wine shop, partially motivated his interest in government.

When Beast shut down in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the space was used for Pomeroy’s new project Ripe Cooperative — an all-in-one restaurant, wine shop and grab-and-go market — until its closure in 2022.

Atwater Village’s newbie wine shop only opened in January, but its Baby Battista bar venue has already become an alt hot spot.

“The consensus at the meetings was for a community center,” said Lisa Lewis, who works in a wine shop a few stores down from Indiana’s former home.