This 28-year-old is pursuing grocery store dreams in Northeast Park Hill. But her landlord has plans too

Last year, Urja Paudel and her family took out a 10-year lease on a beat-up corner store in the Park Hill Shopping Center. She had big dreams of bringing healthy groceries to the Northeast Park Hill food desert and creating a space where everyone in the neighborhood would be able to go. She took over the Holly Market and has brought more food to the shelves than it has seen in years. But a year later, her building’s new co-owner, Ty Allen, has a vision of his own: opening a grocery store in the bones of the old Horizon Lounge a few doors down from Paudel’s own market. The Holly Market convenience store in the area of Northeast Park Hill known as Holly Square. Sept. 29, 2026. “They re trying to make that a grocery store,” she said, pointing toward the shuttered bar. This place is already functioning. But I m like, I need help making it so I can bring more produce in here. With years left on her lease, Paudel is worried that Allen’s project — which has stirred intense