MALTA — The music venue and Louisiana-themed restaurant NaNola, which debuted on Halloween in 2013, will close after service on Tuesday, Sept. 30. Owner Shane Spillenger, whose late father, Ralph, owned local bars and restaurants for decades, said his liquor license is expiring and he didn’t want to renew it as NaNola entered its slow season.
“It makes money for half the year, and I put money into it for the other half,” Spillenger said Friday.
“I probably should have made the decision years ago,” he said, recognizing that, despite the growing presence of the GlobalFoundries nanotech plant — which in part inspired the restaurant’s name — Malta had not boomed the way he’d hoped. Further, he said, while construction workers patronized NaNola during building phases, too few of its permanent employees turned into regular customers…