hello hello hello good morning thank you all for joining uh we will get started in just a moment as a reminder when you are entering from the waiting room please do remain on mute unless or until you are presenting or providing testimony before
the board good morning this is a hearing before the licensing board for the city of Boston today is Wednesday March 5th 2025 today's hearing is being held pursuant to Temporary amendments to the open meeting law that is what allows us to meet virtually today's hearing is being recorded and
will be posted to the city of Boston's website we are joined this morning by commissioner Liam curan and commissioner Kiana Saxon please ensure that your audio and visuals are working properly if you will be presenting or providing testimony before the board this morning I will
call each item in the order that it appears on this morning's agenda I will then ask who is present on behalf of the applicant you'll make a brief presentation regarding your proposal followed by questions by the commissioners following questions there will be an opportunity for Testimony beginning with
elected officials or their representatives for members of general public wishing to provide testimony please limit your testimony to 2 minutes and please state your name address and affiliation if any begin with the first item on this morning's agenda calling item number one
driver seat LLC doing business as Boston Halal located at 961 Commonwealth a has applied for a common vict license to be exercised at a previously licensed location 3100 ft on the first floor ground level restaurant includes a
dining area with 44 seats three public restrooms a service counter a back work room and two walk-in coolers there's also a seasonal private seasonal patio from April to November with 16 seats operating from 7:00 a.m. to 12: a.m. manager Babu koganti hours of operation
indoors 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. who's present on behalf of the applicant hi it's me Babu koganti great thank you very much Mr kti for being with us if you could please briefly present the proposed concept to the board yeah it's um it was previously it
was Blaze Pizza so we're going into the blaze P space uh opening up Boston Halal it's a New York style street food with Indian Mediterranean mix to it and we we also might serve the pizza because the pizan was there so we want to do a Halal Pizza up there and because it's on the
campus so we want to love we would love to go late hours if possible for the kids up there and there's no alcohol great thank you with that we'll see if there are any questions from the board commissioner Kern and commissioner saxi um just regarding the hours what
were the hours previously at that location and what are your hours planning um regarding the days of the week I'm not sure what they were operating before but uh we want to operate from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. serving breakfast lunch dinner and late
night seven days a week seven days a week yes okay uh I'll wait on comments if I have any other questions but uh as of right now nothing else because the next door Al have is doing the same thing all right is this is this takeout
until 3:00 am or are you GNA have third party delivery uh it's it's takeout and deliveries okay what is your third party takeout plan like do you have is there to park
yeah I mean there there's dedicated parking up there um so we don't know how the area is because we never open a business in that area so but we spoke to face our neighbors they said it's pretty much uh pretty much possible because after 12:00 p.m. it's the the the the
street is not that busy so they do a pretty good takeout after 12:00 p.m. for the kids and uh commissioner kin for your question about the prior license I just pulled up they had a license until 1: a.m. okay thank you any other questions from the
commissioners before we move to testimony none from me great are there any individuals who would like to testify on this matter beginning with elected officials or their representatives yes madame chair members of the board Conor Newman with the mayor's office of Neighborhood Services uh at this time the mayor's office defer
to the judge for this board some background information the community process ons at hosted the Butter's meeting on uh November 7th uh from my understand no one was in attendance no concerns were raised uh they were in contact with the Allon civic association which is the closest Civic group uh they
were in non opposition to this proposal uh with that we'll defer to the board at this time thank you thank you are there any other individuals who would like to testify on this matter board will take this under advisement thank you very much thank
you following item number two Duffy Enterprises Inc doing business as Domino's P located at 163 Old Colony AV in South Boston holder of a Comm vular license has petitioned to change the closing hours of the location uh from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. to 10: a.m. to
3:00 a.m. Who present on behalf of the applicant uh my name is uh Bill Mohan I'm a licensing and permitting consultant working with Duffy Enterprises uh I have been appearing before this
board for about the last 15 to 20 years uh things have changed with the board I I remember walking in and uh and being greeted by Mary Sullivan and and uh uh Nancy uh and I miss both of them uh but
in any case uh I've worked uh with uh on a number of applications for Domino around uh around uh Boston and and greater Boston uh and in every case uh
it was dealing with uh late uh late delivery uh Domino's has become the number one franchise Domino uh Pizza franchise not just in the country in the world uh and we've done that because of
two words and those two words are we deliver uh we deliver our own there are no uh paid delivery services that handle our our products uh and uh our drivers are the
the the the highest paid employees that that we have uh make it very very clear to the drivers the first complaint we get of uh dangerous driving uh excessive noise you're gone
and uh they don't they don't challenge that and and and they won't uh they won't chance losing the job over that uh we do not allow them to play the radios in the car uh when they uh come to the
store uh to pick up their next group of of orders uh they don't have to park in the the front of the store we have a uh um we have an Old Road uh that is now a pass through I don't know whether you
can see that uh I hope you can because that's that's that's the roadway uh our is park there that door that you see is the back door right into the kitchen of our franchise uh they don't have to go
through the front door uh when we close uh for Walkins uh the store is closed the front door is locked all of the lights in the foyer and on a sign are off uh and the
only lights are in the kitchen and it's only the people working in the kitchen and the driver is going to and from uh when we uh in order to to get to this point uh the mayor's office of Neighborhood
Services uh instructed us that provided us with a flyer and you have a copy of that all the material that that I'm talking about you have copies of as well uh made a flyer and we had to distribute it to the 175 uh units of
housing uh in a 300 foot radius of uh of the store uh when we did this we have to take a picture of it and send it back to the uh to the mayor's office and they was Serv us to show that we are in fact doing that once we've proved and we've
done that now we can apply for an abd's meeting we had an abd's meeting there was only one call in opposition and that was a woman that lived a little ways down the street and across the the street the major thorough Fair Old
Colony is is a four-lane uh roadway and two lanes of of of parking so six Lanes ac across uh and she was complaining that our sign keeps her up at night and I said well how long has this been going
on and she said well four years since we moved in and I said did you come come over and complain to us or let us know that was the case no I didn't okay fine uh I then went to Sant
fitten at the Boston police in station of South Boston to see if there were any other complaints about dominoes and he said well I'm the day uh Community Service Officer and I can say point blank no we don't have have any but I
will check with my nighttime supervisor he did call me the next day no we never have a problem with dominoes uh so I decided to I met about about 35 to 40 people on the street you know posting things on their door A lot of them came to the door and said what
what's this about uh there was no opposition not a single one uh that uh and in fact uh most of them said uh we're happy with that uh we want that to to to go through uh two
young gentlemen on uh West 8th Street came down and said we're in we're in dominoes three or four times a week and in fact we'd like to buy your franchise how much do you want for the franchise and uh and we said I'm sorry it's it's not for sale uh that's when we decided
Well let's see what the rest of the neighborhood is is going to say because I knew from past experiences the uh uh Andrew Square civic association was not going to be in favor of this the the city council is not going to be in favor
of this that they're post all late nights uh and so I want to see what the rest of the neighbor neighborhood did and so I we I printed up some some petitions and every person that that I started a conversation with started with
do you live in South Boston or do you work in South Boston if the answer was yes then I explained the petition uh and you have a copy over 120 people sign that that petition uh not one person that that we
talked about what we're doing uh said no I'm not I'm not in favor of it I'm not going to sign um when we went to the then went to the uh Austin I'm sorry not Austin uh the Andrew Square
civic association meeting uh true to form the leadership made it very very clear even before the meeting even started that they were against it uh I had gotten to the meeting about a half an hour early was talking to a couple of people and the president came over and
asked me to sit down uh you have five minutes when we calling you to present your case and I know what you're doing you're working the crowd and we don't want to see that sit down uh and that that was it and there were two two ladies who who were were uh called upon
by the the chair uh one said she had listened to the butters meeting and listened to the woman complaining about across the street and I had a chance to correct her and said well well you I know know that's what she said but that's not accurate and we talked about
that uh and then uh the second woman said well I have a friend who was at the gas station down the street that that said uh there was a there was a gentleman running around just shoving pieces of paper in front of people and say here just sign this you don't have
to know what it is just sign it and I I took uh I took issue with that I mean I've been at this a while I don't do that um what we did find uh the first people to
sign the petition was the next door a neighbor of the woman who said the light was keeping her awake and so I asked she and her husband uh I may be reaching it may not be her husband but in any case the couple and he said uh no we don't
have a problem with Dominos uh we have a problem with the gas station but we don't have a problem with dominoes okay and that's the way it went all the way around uh several years ago uh former city councilor Michael Ross who was former city council president and and
appears before your board on occasion uh wrote an opet in the globe and said Boston is on the verge of becoming a world-class City and people are coming here for education for their businesses for their jobs uh but Boston has to work on two
projects to issues to to to make it that and one was increased Improvement Transportation especially at late night and late night food access uh if we're able to go to 3:00 a.m. and and you have
voted this for us and we're very grateful for that uh in in in every case that we've come before you because we've been able to show that there is a need every business that comes into a neighborhood or a city or a ward even uh
comes in to prevent present a service uh it's a service for the people who live and work in that Community uh Domino service is predominantly late night uh late night delivery uh other businesses in order to
take advantage of what they do you have to leave your residence and you have to go walk or drive to to that that location that's not the case with dominoes over 90% % of our business in every Domino's franchise is delivery and
and that's the way we have it um and so uh what we tried to do is to be is to present that service we've made it clear you have you have copies of of all the petition sheets that we we've had uh the
the people who uh live in in salty just signed the people who work in salty I've identified them on on the petitions as working in saly uh in two instances one woman came in was in the store when I
just happened to be presenting the petitions to the people who who work there and asked what we were doing and I told them and she says I work in the Boston postal annex it's the largest Postal Annex in
New England and we work all night getting the mail ready to distribut for thing in the morning and we don't have access to food and we try to call and we can't get
through to Dominos and why because we're closed uh the phones are shut off at the gas station one of the gentlemen that that that uh signed in petition with Excuse me sir yes um why don't we move
on to comments uh I think you're in some opposition okay they have to say because you're you're gonna get a chance to respond to them yes I was just gonna ask for that yeah so why don't we just move like yeah I I know you're anticipating comments so why don't we get to those
and you'll be able to respond to them specifically perfect thank you thank you and before we move to questions and testimony just one question Mr Mohan just to clarify since it's not in the agenda of the hearing notice um the application is for delivery only between 1:00 a.m. and 3: am is that correct that's correct door will be Clos the St
will be closed the lights are off and the signs off thank you uh before we move to testimony commissioner current commissioner asking any questions I I wait on comments as well no questions right now thank you great are there any individuals who would like to testify on
this matter beginning with elected officials or their representatives yes members of the board Conor Newman with the mayor's office of Neighborhood Services this time the mayor's offic to defer to the judge from this board some background information in the community process on had hosted in the butters meeting on November 20th
uh there was about half a dozen residents who attended uh two were vocally in support uh we had three that expressed uh concerns or opposition um wab butter stated that allowing the business to expand their hours uh would improve uh the commercial viability of
the area um those who Express concerns Express concerns about uh potential noise uh from these delivery drivers coming in late at night or um you know mentions of existing issues with vagrancy in the area and concerns that
the extended hours would compound uh these issues uh the applicant did appear before the Andre Square civic association which I understand is an opposition uh the applicant has collected a number of signatures which they have forwarded to the board and the board should have access to with that we defer to the board thank
you I thank you attorney green and members of the board my name is Sydney I'm from councelor Flynn's office um councelor Flynn would like to join the Andrew Square civic association and go on record and opposition due to Quality of Life concerns raised by neighbors with the 3:00 a.m. Closing Time thank
you thank you are there any other individuals who would like to testify on this matter commissioner K commissioner Saxon any questions following the testimony we've heard um attorney green do we have any correspondence from Andrew Square Civic
yes we received an opposition letter this morning right before the hearing that'll be shared with uh both of you after this okay but no one's here to speak I'll ask again is there anybody with us this morning who would like to testify on this
matter not appear to be anybody with us this morning to speak okay uh do do you have any closing remarks uh yes uh I met tried to meet on two occasions with the with Council Flynn went to his office on two occasions met with his officials uh
and they said yeah we're going to set up a time for you to come in meet with and I never got a call from from the council's office and as I said there's another pizza shop right in the heart of Andrew Andrew Square that's that's late night and the gas station right down the
street is 24 hours a day and it's it's something that that the the neighborhood and South Boston has shown uh especially with the addition of dories to University of Massachusetts I remember when this is a small commu school that's not the case anymore and that's one of
us our most popular destinations at night as you can imagine uh Boston is changing South Boston is changing Andrew square is changing the building that's going on there over the next 10 years is incredible uh and the demand for those
services are going to continue to expand uh we think the board understands that and we think the board understands what we're trying to do and we're hopeful that you you'll you'll join us in in approving the 3: am delivery thank you very much for your time all right thank
you thank you thank you if there are no further questions the board will take this matter under advisement as well thank you thank you thank you calling item number three Sushi washing Inc doing business as wash in located at 212 to 222 Stewart Street holder of a common VI or 7-Day wines and M beverages
license has petitioned to change the manager of the license business from yukin wo to leang Jang attorney and Marie Janine attorney Janine oh uh you on mute on moment good morning morning can you hear
me now you can okay thank you good morning an Marie johnine on behalf of sushi sushi Washen Inc DBA wasen there to holder of a wine and Malt Beverages license operated at 222 Stewart Street in the Back Bay again this is a petition for change of
manager from Yukan wo to leang Zang who is present here um Mr Zang is the president of Susy washing Inc and has been in charge of the overseeing of the restaurant since its opening um a little over a year ago he also has over 17
years experience in the restaurant business okay um Mr Zang I'm going to go through the uh manager of record questions are you with us yes I'm here okay um are
you a US citizen or legally authorized to work in the United States yes uh are you a resident of Massachusetts yes your attorney already went over your experience so I'll take that and then so the final question would be are you
familiar with the rules and regulations of this board the abcc and the laws of the Commonwealth regarding the sale and service of alcohol yes okay that's all I have thank you commissioner Saxon any
questions nothing additional thank you thank you are there any individuals who would like to testify on this matter seeing none the board will take the center advis as well thank you very much thank you thank you thank you calling four llh LLC doing business as
Trader Joe's located at 199 North Harvard Street in Alon holder of a retail package store all alcoholic beverages license has petitioned to change the manager of the license business from kushal ra to Brian Thomas foot who's pres on behalf of the applicant hi I'm Brian foot great thank
you Mr foot for being with us um commissioner K if you want to go through the manager of record questions yes thank you Mr foot are you a United States citizen or legally authorized to work in the US yes um are you a resident
of Massachusetts yes um do you have experience in the food and beverage industry I've worked for Trader Joe's for over 12 years um in management for over 10 and have worked in a couple different stores that have sold alcohol in the past okay and uh are you familiar
with the rules and regulations of this board the abcc and the laws of the Commonwealth as they pertain to the sale and service of op yes okay that's all I have thank you thank you nothing additional thank you thank you are there uh any individuals who would like to
test ify on this matter the board will take this under advisement as well thank you very much for being with us thank you calling item number five Remington Boston employers LLC doing business as Hilton Boston Back Bay located at 40 Dalton Street holder of an inh holder all alcoholic beverages
license has petitioned to change the manager of the license business from Dominique Marty to Doug kig who's present on behalf of the applicant I am Doug kig thank you morning Mr con morning I have the same question questions for you are you a US citizen or legally
authorized to work in the United States I am uh a resident of Massachusetts I am uh do you have experience in the food and beverage industry uh yeah I've been uh hotel management for 36 years now uh 30 years of it as a general manager of
hotels that serve food and beverage okay and uh are you familiar with the rules and regulations of this board the abcc and the laws of the Commonwealth as they pertain to service and sales of alcohol yes okay that's all I have thank you thank
you nothing additional thanks thank you are there any individuals who would like to testify on this matter board will take this under advisement as well thank you Mr con for being with us calling item number six fan Hall MV restaurant LLC doing business as
Margaritaville located at 300 Fel Hall Marketplace holder of a common victual or 7-Day all alcoholic beverages license has petion to change the manager of the licensed business from Jeremy Ward to Christen May who's present on behalf of the applicant good morning Elizabeth
Bano from Upton canel and delin on behalf of the leny with me is the new proposed manager of record uh Christ Mahan she is a US citizen a Massachusetts resident and is familiar with the rules and regulations of this
board and the abcc relating to the sale and service of alcohol um she is tip certified and has been working in the food and beverage industry for over 15 years most recently she's been the assistant general manager at the Margaritaville here in fenel Hall um and
prior to that she worked at mil Miller's Ale House and Watertown and the tavern and Framingham and we're happy to answer any questions that you have uh thank you attorney Pano for covering these standard questions I have no further
questions nothing for me thank you great thanks I will just ask if there's any with us who would like to testify on this matter seeing n the board will take this under advisement as well thank you thank you calling item number seven High Street TRS LLC doing business as High
Street Place located at 100 High Street holder of a common vict or 7-Day all alcoholic beverages license has petitioned for a change of officers directors LLC managers of the corporation attorney Adam barnoski attorney barnoski thank you attorney green good morning members current and Saxon ad
barnoski 255 State Street in Austin here on behalf of High Street TRS LLC doing business as High Street place we are here on a application for a change of officers and directors specifically this is the change of the LLC manager uh Joseph Goldman is replacing Spencer
Raymond Mr Raymond Departed the company last month Mr Goldman who is United States citizen and serves as Deputy general councel for Rocko will take over this position as the board is aware the food Hall is owned by rockpoint and it's
operated by its affiliate uh Rock Hill the property is subject to several management agreements which handle day-to-day alcoholic beverage sale and service on premise the requested change before the board today will have no impact uh on the operation of the food Hall happy to answer any
questions I have no questions none from me thank you thank you are there any individuals with us this morning who would like to testify on this matter seeing n the board will take the cender advisement as well thank thank you very much thank
you calling together items 8 n and 10 Mass Bay Brewing Company Inc doing business as Harpoon Brewery located at 306 Northern AV holder of a 19B farmer Winery pouring license a 19c farmer Brewery pouring license and A1 19h
combined wines and malts pouring license has petitioned for a change of officers directors and also has petitioned for a change of stock interest in all three licenses who is present on behalf of the applicant I am good morning morning attorney GRE Commissioners Mark Borstein an attorney at the law fir Prince leel
with an office in Boston representing Mass Bay Brewing Company Inc doing business as Harpoon Brewery um this morning I'm joined by certain representatives of Harpoon Brewery Nathaniel Davis who's the president and also Shannon Cudmore who is the assistant vice president of administration um as you just read into
the record uh attorney green we're applying for a change of officers and directors and a change of stock interest pertaining to the farmer Brewery farmer Winery and the 19h uh pouring permits with respect to the premises um just brief overview for the Commissioners uh
these applications pertain to um the fact that uh Mass Bay is joining forces with finest kind Brewing LLC u under the umbrella barel one Collective Inc um and as a result all the shareholders of Mass Bay are contributing their interests to barel one Collective and receiving 50%
interest in the new company as a result um and so as part of that we're seeking those those amendments other than that there will be no changes uh to the operations of the of the existing facility so would that have answer any questions the commissioner may have I have no
questions none from me thank you thank you are there any individuals with us this morning who would like to testify on these items 8 n and 10 seeing on the board will take these matters under advisement as well and uh thank you Miss cmore for all the back and forth on getting the applications uh
bet before us thank you very much thankk you following item number 11 golden Naga Inc doing business as Laughing monk Cafe located at 737 Huntington a holder of a common victual or 7-Day all alcoholic beverages license has petitioned for a
change of officers directors and secondly as petition for a change in stock interest attorney Kristen scanland attorney scanland good morning Kristen scanland for the lensey just a brief matter um before you this morning uh to remove a previous shareholder 10%
shareholder chai chit kusol um his 10% share was transferred to the majority shareholder Dome Naka pakorn who now maintains majority ownership other than that uh no other changes to operations I have no questions thank
you none from me thank you thank you very much are there any individuals uh who would like to testify on this matter board will take this under advisement as well thank you very much thanks calling item number 12 Dynasty Restaurant Inc doing business as Dynasty
restaurant located at 14 Hudson Street this item was continued from last week's transactional hearing uh to allow for the completion of the community process holder of a common vict or 7-Day Wines in M beverages with the cor's license has petitioned to change the hours of the licens business from Monday to Sunday 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. to
Monday through Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. and Sundays 10: a.m. to 2: am attorney Chung Lee attorney Lee hi good morning yeah my name is Chung Lee I'm a council and representing the Dynasty Restaurant Inc DBA count Dynasty restaurant located at 14a Hudson Street
in Boston Massachusetts in the Chinatown District uh we are here this morning uh on an application for change of hours uh from the original Monday to Sunday 7 days from 11:00 a.m to 12: a.m. to Monday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 2: amm and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:
a.m. uh Dynasty restaurant has been in business since 2022 and has been operating a full service Oriental restaurant serving upscale Oriental Cuisine and foods and all day dimsum service uh we've been serving the Chinatown community and clientele uh
since 2022 without any incident or complaints and we value our uh our our position as a positive uh Community member of the Chinatown Community uh recently we've been approached well not recently uh for a long time we've been
re approached by a substantial amount of uh existing clientele to extend ours in order to serve principally the Chinatown residents and visitors uh who are unable to make dinner plans prior to 12:00 a.m.
uh many of these uh potential uh clients who are also Chinatown residents uh and not able to uh come back to Chinatown uh to enjoy a nice uh dinner um experience prior to 11 or 12:00 due to employment
obligations as you all know as the board well knows a lot of the residents in China are employed outside of Chinatown and due the transportation closing out outside of in their employment uh positions are not able to come back as such uh while we had the opportunity
when we originally applied for the license in 2022 uh for 2 or 4:00 uh closing time we did work with the community uh who express some concerns about a 2: to 4:00 a.m. closing time and at that time um
after a consultation with my client we accepted and agreed with a 12:00 closing at that time at the moment because we need to meet the uh needs of uh the Chinatown residents and outside uh uh visitors who cannot get to our
restaurant we are proposing amending the hours now after two three years of History shown that we have not had any violation whatsoever and that we can have a positive effect on the chinat community we are proposing extending those hours to 2: a.m. so as we can
address this need uh and demand uh for uh the kind of foods and services that we provide um the restaurant will operate as usual without any other changes other than the change in hours uh the Lal license manager will Mr William W will remain the same and the
corporate structure and Equity owners will remain the same as well um and as we we we have request and we had the communities uh meetings yesterday as well as meeting with the CRA the CPA and the CNC neighborhood groups uh there
were spots of perhaps uh minor concerns but all in all I believe in my opinion there weren't any major opposition to what we were looking for um and at this moment We'll be asking this board uh to approve the application for change of hours uh to Monday to Saturday from 900
a.m. to 2: a.m Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 2: am. um so that we can if have effectively Service uh the TR toown Community as and also contribute uh positively to the Hudson Street area and Chown as a whole thank you very
much thank you with that we'll see if there are any questions from the board commissioner K and commissioner Saxon any questions uh I'll Reserve until after comments thank you none for now thank you thank you are there any individuals who would like to testify beginning with elected officials or their
representatives yes members of the board Connor Newman with the mayor's office of Neighborhood Services this time the mayor is offing to defer to the Judgment of this board some background information on the community process uh on had hosting a Butter's meeting last night that was lightly attended my understanding there was no concerns
raised uh prior to that the applicant was in contact the number of stakeholders and Civic groups in Chinatown including the Chinatown neighborhood Council the Chinatown residents Association the Chinatown Safety Committee um some members of each of those organizations express some
concerns uh the applicant was able to answer questions uh that members of the public had for them uh with that we'll defer to the board at this time thank you thank you are there any other elected officials or the representatives would like to testify before we move to General testimony yes thank you attorney
green and members of the board my name is Sydney up from councelor Flynn's office at this time councelor Flynn would like to go on record in opposition due to the quality of life concerns like trash removal and Noise with the 2 a.m. Closing Time thank you thank you are there any other individuals with us this morning who
would like to testify commissioner C commissioner Saxon any questions following the testimony that we have received I have none thank you no questions from me thank you thank you if there are no further questions uh the board will take this
under advisement thank you very much thank you very much calling item number 13 Huntington Market Inc doing business as Huntington Liquors located at 303 Huntington AV holder of a retail package store all alcoholic beverages license has petitioned to transfer the license from
the above to Symphony liquor Inc doing business as Huntington Wine and Spirits at the same location narel Patel manager 11:00 p.m. closing hour secondly the applicant has petitioned to amend the description of the license uh from 303 Huntington AV one room first floor
seller stock to retail store located at 301 Huntington half Boston consists of approximately 2,216 square feet one room on first floor storage in rear of building one entrance exit and lastly the applicant has petition to pledge the license and inventory to Rockland Trust
Company who's present on behalf of the applicant hi my name is Jackson Christian I'm an attorney at democ LA offices in Lon I'm here for Symphony lickers Inc and Nero Patel is also here who is the president of symphony lickers thank you we do see Mr Patel on here uh
attorney Christian if you could just please briefly uh present the proposed concept and changes to the board yeah so I think you already did a really good job of reading into the record just for a quick summary uh Nero form Symphony liquor Inc to buy the business and the assets from hunting tting Market Inc which is doing business as hunting Ting
wine spirits at 303 hunting Ting Avenue in Boston it's 301-303 and so Nal is all of the officers and the only owner of the corporation um it's going to still be running as a liquor store same hours and everything uh the one change like you mentioned is that we're looking for an
alteration of the premises and we're actually looking to make it smaller um they're going to be putting a demising wall in there so it's going to go from being about 5,000 ft to 2,216 Ft um and it's there's no real estate it's going to be a polias with the same landlord and nural is going to
be the manager of record um he's tip certified and they're going to have new ID scanners in there and um Nal he has another section 15 an interest in another section 15 license in Boston so you know he's experienced with the rules in Boston and everything like that and
yeah you're getting financing from Rockland Trust Company so that's the reason we're looking for the pledge of the inventory and the license and um other than that I'll take any questions that you all have is Mr Patel the manager of record of the other
license no he is not yes no okay so Mr Patel I'll just go through the standard questions again um are you a US citizen or authorized to work in the US yes I am US citizen sir okay um are you a resident of math Massachusetts yes um
and you you have food experience in the food and beverage industry yes sir okay and are you familiar with the rules and regulations of this board the abcc and the laws of the com Commonwealth regarding the S regarding the sale and service of alcohol yes sir okay I think
that's all I have thank you nothing from me thank you thank you are there any individuals who would like to testify in this matter beginning with elected officials or their representatives are there any other individuals with us who would like to testify on this matter Bo will'll take this under
advisement as well thank you very much for being with us thank you thank you thank you and finally calling item number 14 J ajb Inc doing business as Tavern in the Square Alon located at 161 to 165 Brighton a in Alon holder of a
common victual or 7day all alcoholic beverages license has petitioned to transfer the license from the above to Sanada Alon LLC doing business as gingi Sanada and bombada at the same location Samson dang manager 2: a.m. closing hour secondly the applicant has petitioned to
amend the description of the premise from rear entrance to Alley off 87 Harvard Avenue for stock in two rooms on first floor kitchen and stock and seller one room an annual roof deck patio for 150 persons on second floor from 8:00 a.m. to 12 a.m. daily inside capacity
breakdown 265 person standing 3155 seated for Boston fire department use of mechanical counters to maintain occupancy load required to the new revised description on two floors ground floor approximately 6,500 sare ft in four rooms first with table and Booth
seating for 148 bar and standing area for patrons second with food prep and kitchen area third with table and Booth seating for 84 and fourth with kitchen and food prep area basement approximately 6500 sare ft with multiple bathrooms for guests and staff kitchens
walk-in coolers offices storage and lockers for staff who's present on behalf of the applicant good morning Commissioners secretary green Kevin Butler from mcder quilty Miller and Hanley representing the applicant Simba Alon LLC in their application to transfer the existing all alcoholic
beverages restaurant license currently at 161 to 165 Brighton Avenue in Alon to the applicants at the same location I am joined by Samson dang the proposed manager of record and the members of the ownership team approval of this application will bring three new exciting Concepts to Allon the premisis
will be approximately 13,000 Square ft and will house three concepts in two separate but connected spaces the first concept gingi will be in the larger space and will be an authentic Korean barbecue with an elevated menu and offerings the second space will H the other two concepts sbata and babata
simata has a more Seafood Focus menu and will be slightly more approachable here you'll see grilled fish a large selection of sides and healthy fresh and high-end ingredients bambata is sada's nighttime counterpart and will include a reshaped menu they'll have dishes that parallel with specialty Korean cocktails
gingi will have seating for 148 while simata and bambata will have seating for 84 we are proposing to keep the 2: am closing hour uh and we are not doing third party deliveries because they are not compatible with our food Concepts as I'm sure you'll hear from uh on shortly
we have attended an AB butter meeting where we answered questions and generally receive support with no opposition and engaged in a productive conversation with the neighborhood civic association where we were L well received as I've already mentioned I am joined by the POS manager of record Mr dang has experience with the sale and
service of alcohol including as manager Captain Louis and Sonam he is a United States citizen a resident of drit is experienced in the industry and is familiar with the laws of the Commonwealth the rules of the abcc and this board for the sale and service of alcohol the applicant team has extensive experience in the restaurant industry
operating multiple restaurants in and around Boston including Cafe weekend right around the corner from the proposed premises Kim's tofu and Sean Alon having done so for many years successfully and without incident we want to thank you for hearing this application today and we are happy to
answer any questions that you may have I have no questions at this time none for me thank you thank you are there any individuals who would like to testify beginning with elected officials or their representatives yes members of the board Conor Newman with the mayor's office of
neighborhood services at this time the mayor's office to defer to the judge from this board some back back information the community process um as you heard on had running a Butter's meeting on January 27th uh there was one a butter president who had raised concerns regarding noise issues that had
occurred with the previous tenant at this location uh there were no further comments in that meeting uh the applicant went on to the Altin civic association which was supportive of The Proposal on the conditions that they'd be a good neighbor um taking care of their trash being mindful of rodent issues in the community as well as uh
snow removal on the public Street scapes uh a letter has been sent to the board I understand from that defer to the board thank you thank you Connor are there any other individuals who would like to testify on this matter any further questions from the board the board will take this under
advisement as well thank you very much thank you those are all the items before the board this morning uh the board will vote tomorrow morning at 10 A.M notice has been posted to the city's website that will adjourn this hearing thank you all and enjoy the rest of your day thank thank you thank you