Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban MilwaukeeSweet Connie’s Cafe has permanently closed its Downtown Milwaukee location at 1031 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., less than a year after opening. “It’s been nothing but stress the last three years,” Wiley told Urban Milwaukee in March 2025. “I’ve basically sunk my entire life savings into this building, and [Towns] sunk the last three years and everything that she could spare.”Sweet Connie’s officially launched last spring. Around the same time, Towns shared she had been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. Sweet Connie’s replaced The Spice House‘s flagship, which operated in the street-level commercial space for more than six decades before closing in early 2023.