Good morning. We will give just a moment to clear the waiting room and make sure that folks have connected to audio. As a reminder, when you are entering from the waiting room, please do remain on mute unless or until you are
providing testimony before the board. Good morning. This is a hearing before the licensing board for the city of Boston. Today is Thursday, May 1st, 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. Before I review procedural matters for this morning's hearing, I will introduce chairwoman of the board, Kathleen Joyce. Good morning. My name is Kathleen Joyce. I'm chair of the Boston Licensing Board. And today I'm joined by Commissioner
Liam Curran and Commissioner Kiana Saxon. Thank you. Please do uh make sure that your audio and visuals are working properly if you are presenting before the board this morning. This morning's hearing consists of anformational hearing which will be followed immediately by the board's regularly
scheduled voting hearing. For theformational hearing, the board is in receipt of a petition from 25 residents about a particular Lency. A representative for the petitioner will have the opportunity to present the case to the board. Lency will have the chance
to uh respond followed by questions by the chair and commissioners. Members of the public may be allowed to provide additional testimony at the chair's discretion if time allows. Once the board moves into its voting hearing, there will be no additional testimony
accepted. Theformational hearing. The licency in question is Denseno LLC doing business as Borachito the Garrett Boston located at 70 Pier 4 Boulevard. This is anformational hearing regarding the lency's operational procedures including noise mitigation, hours of operation and
crowd control. Upon receipt of a resident's petition pursuant to boards rule 1.19B mass general laws chapter 138 section 23 and section 64 who is present on behalf of the lency tennis is muted but Dennis Quilty myself Mackenzie Gleason. Yeah just just did
it. Sorry about that. Uh good morning uh attorney green madam chair members of the board. Dennis Quilty, attorney representing the Lency this morning with us. Uh Gavin Mosley, who's the owner, operator, and uh members of his staff, Hope Murphy, uh as well as
representatives of uh the property owner, uh and other residents of the area. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you very much all for being with us. Who is present on behalf of the petitioners?
Good morning. Uh, excuse me. Attorney Matthew Gaines. I represent uh the condo association in which the petitioners uh reside. And some of the petitioners are here as well. Great. Thank you. Um, it is the board's understanding that you are here representing the condo association.
That's correct. Correct. Yes. Great. Then we will take uh your presentation as their representation. Uh, we'll begin with you, Attorney Gaines, to please outline the case to be presented to the board. Thank you very much. As I said, uh, it's Matthew Gaines. I'm an attorney with the law firm of Marcus Orico,
Emmer, and Brooks, and I represent the 133 and 135 Seapport Residential Condominium Associations, better known as Echelon Seapport. Um, excuse me. The the restaurant in question, Borachido, is on the first floor of these
residential buildings. Uh, and the issues of of excessive noise from this restaurant has been going on for probably over 18 months at this point. Uh over the past several months, the condo association has tried to address this issue directly with the restaurant
in their ownership, but unfortunately um those efforts have not been uh productive and there's been no noticeable improvements. Um the restaurant was issued uh two violations in the past couple of months. Uh but obviously that wasn't enough to stop the problem as over the past few weeks. It's
actually as bad as as ever, if not worse. Um, as you well aware that the city's ordinance, uh, noise can't exceed 70 dB at any time and cannot exceed 50 dB after 11 p.m. Um, about a month ago, the condominium installed decibel
readers. Uh, one was near the restaurant and the other was on the fifth floor uh, above the restaurant. The data from these readers, uh, which we're happy to provide if you'd like, uh, shows regular noise peaks exceeding the limits of 50
dB after 11 o'clock 11 p.m. particularly bad between 1 and 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. Um, however, apparently it's not just limited to Fridays and Saturdays. As I was told just yesterday that as recently as a couple days ago on
Tuesday of this week, many residents uh called the police because there was loud music that could be heard in units up at the fifth floor and there were screaming patrons and this was all at 1:00 a.m. in the morning on a Tuesday. Uh, this is really unacceptable. Um, we would note
that other nearby restaurants and bars in the area have closing times that are much earlier, 11 o'clock, 11:30, and midnight, respectively, for some of the other bars in the area. And these establishments are still very successful, even though they they close earlier. And one of the big problems
with the fact that Borito has a 2 a.m. closing time is that it's really the only bar in the area that does. So when the folks leave these other establishments at 11, 11:30 or midnight, they then go down to Boracito and that's when everyone starts congregating outside and the noise gets bad. Um I
suspect that the owner or their attorney today will tell you that things are improving with the changes they've made, but that's just simply not the case. Um the the efforts the restaurant has taken to date to try to deal with this issue has not generated any noticeable improvements. And frankly, at this
point, given that they've tried, we don't really think that any further attempts by the restaurant will yield acceptable results. Um, therefore, on behalf of of my client, we request that the licensing board take appropriate steps to enforce compliant of the
regulations. And more importantly, what the real ask is is that given that further efforts to mitigate the noise is clearly not going to be fruitful. We request that the licensing board adjust the operating hours such that the closing hours for Boroto are more in line with the
surrounding establishments and that we would propose a closing time of 11 p.m. uh for Boroto. I appreciate the time today and that's all I have to say. I don't know if you want to hear from some of the residents next or I'll defer to you. Thank you. Chairman, do you have a
chance to respond or Oh, absolutely. Chairman, do you have questions specifically for attorney gains or would you like to hear uh from the lency to respond first? I'm just going to state that it's my understanding that attorney gains is representing the condo owners. So, I don't know if we I don't have any
other questions or I don't see a need at this point for individual condo owners to testify. Yeah. The only thing I would add is that it might be helpful at least to hear from one or two because they can add a more personal touch because they're the ones that are experiencing it as opposed to me. I don't obviously don't live there. Um I can tell you.
Okay. We're just going to try to move forward. We'll get to that public the additional testimony after. Thank you attorney Quilty if you would like to respond on behalf of the Lency. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Green. Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the board. Thanks for the opportunity to uh respond
today. Excuse me. I think there are a couple of just housekeeping things to clear up. Um, to my knowledge, I think there may have been something issued, but I've only seen it in writing. We've had one uh violation hearing to my knowledge
which concerned overcrowding and not anything else. I'm not aware, although I did see some in some memo somewhere among the many pieces of paper leading up to today. Apparently, there's been a second uh notice with the board. I'm not in receipt of it. So, I'm not aware of
whatever a second violation is to my knowledge. One which has been heard and that's it. And this lency doesn't have a history of uh of of violations as the board knows. Um number two, I didn't represent all of these places, but I
represent a lot of them. Most if not all of the restaurants and operations in the seapport have 2 a.m. licenses. Uh what those businesses do with their operating hours is of course up to them, but it's not true that everybody else has closing hours of midnight. Many of the places
referenced Saver, for example, is 2 a.m. Many of the other places, as the board knows, have 2 a.m. licenses. Some places stay open, some don't. Um the the the major thrust that we'd like to put before you today is
that all we're looking for is due process here. We have engaged the residents and owners and the neighborhood association and district counselor Flynn's office and the mayor's office over many many weeks of meetings
on site, off-site, over Zoom, over the telephone, in person. This as far as we were concerned and are concerned is a continuing process. We have spent time, effort, and money to do everything we
can do to begin to try to address these issues. We understand them. We do not think that everything that's going on in and around this building is the responsibility of one lency in a in an area surrounded by licences. Uh but we
understand that we are responsible for our premises and we have spent a great deal of time working with folks in this building to resolve issues. We've had meetings on site wherein we were in investigating sound leakage,
investigating locations where uh proper sound insulation wasn't installed, not not on behalf of this my client, but on behalf of the building itself. We are a small cog here in this building, but we agreed to meet to go over this area and
to spend money to better soundproof the areas above us, which would help buffer anything coming from our space. We've spent money on additional security, which we are asked to do. We have spent time and effort meeting with folks to try to get a better understanding of
what the issues are and how we can begin to address them. This isn't something that we have simply ignored. We were there have to be 10 meetings between Zoom, in person, and phone meetings. The most recent of which was last Monday sponsored by Councelor Flynn. We've
attended all of them. We've gone to see people. We've answered questions. We've told them what we can do. Some of these problems are beyond us. Some of the problems with noise outside this building have to do with drop drops drop offs and pickups and food deliveries and
Uber pickups and Uber drop offs which we've been working with the city of Boston on trying to resolve where and how we can get people out of this building properly and quietly at closing time. It's not easy. Um Mr. Cypus who I
hope is here with us who represents WS development who are the developers of the entire Seapport Square has has personally taken the responsibility of working with transportation department and other city departments to try to help resolve this issue. We are not you
know just looking the other way here. We're doing everything we can do reasonably to help make these issues dissipate and go away to the extent we can. We only want the opportunity to continue doing that. We want the opportunity to be treated fairly. One
violation in the entire time they've been open. One. And it had nothing to do with noise. Uh again, it's it's to me it's due process. Give us an opportunity here. We're we're in the middle of meeting with these folks and trying to resolve
issues. I thought a very interesting uh um matter in doing the math. It appears that this petition was posted in the building for over a month and 16 out of 730 units signed on to this petition.
16. It's about 2 or 3% of the building. This is by no means a buildingwide issue. This is an issue that for some reason affects there are people on the highest levels of the building that are affected. We're trying desperately to figure out how it is that any noise from
our establishment can travel that distance. We're doing what we can. We're working with people. We're we're helping. We're doing what we can do and we want to continue doing that. We fully understand that we are responsible. We have to be responsible operators and we're trying to do just that. Uh, I do
want to say that on the one issue at one point of of last Tuesday, um, Tuesday nights are not a particularly busy night at this establishment, nor I would guess or in most establishments around the city. Uh, our staff people, Hope Murphy
was with us today, can testify that on that night at that time, there were approximately 25 patrons in the space. We would submit that whatever noise was going on last Tuesday night did not come from Boracito. There's some reference to the fifth floor in one of the
complaints. We don't know. But 25 people in a capacity of four or five times, that isn't going to cause that kind of an issue. And she was there. She was present. It didn't happen from our establishment. I mean, I wish we had
information on every single incident. We don't. on that one. We do because it was pointed out specifically and hope would testify before you today under oath that she was there. There were no more than 25 patrons in the place at the time in question. It could not have happened
from it could the noise couldn't have come from Borito. Not possible. Um I would like at the appropriate time to uh ask the board to allow Mr. Mosley, who's the owner operator, to address the board, but I I don't really have a sense of how you want this scheduled, so I'll
stand back and let you tell us. Thank you, Attorney Gold. Chairman Joyce, would you like to hear from Mr. Mosley now or would you like to move to questions for the Lency or the representatives of the petition? Well, I just have a a couple of statements, questions right now for those who have testified already. This is the due
process. We received a petition with 25 signatures which triggered anformational hearing and that is why we are here today. That being said, the residents should know we do not have additional violations this for this lency. We have one and that was for crowd control and
moni staff monitoring which are very important things that we take uh we do do not take lightly. And at that hearing the lency committed to um having additional staff and to
um um make sure the lines are monitored outside. Noise takes a lot of um noise can come in the form of people talking outside. Uber drivers, um, idling outside, um, traditional noise that you
hear from, um, an that you get from an entertainment, um, license, whether it's background noise or live music. And at that hearing in February, the Lency was committed to doing additional sound mitigation. So, that is due process too, as far as the residents are concerned, we need to give
this Lency an opportunity to put the sound the appropriate sound mitigation tools in place. Um, again, this is a um a I will call it a neighborhood in the city that the um the city wants to see
activated by both residents and um places to gather like Borito. So, we need to find a way to um that both can work together and live in harmony. This isn't the only neighborhood that we deal
with. there's other parts of the city too that have similar issues and we this is the first step in a process. Um so that's what I'm going to state right now. This is due process. So I appreciate the fact that people this
people might think that they're this isn't happening fast enough. I appreciate the fact that people think it's happening way too fast but we're doing what we are, you know, supposed to do here. So, with that, um, I don't know who else is interested
in testifying. Danny, I don't know if you have a list or people have signed up, but before we get to actual residents, I think we should hear from the U. managers of the license premise. Um, and if there's any other if anyone
from WS is here who wishes to testify. I know Mr. I'm sorry to interrupt now. I know Mr. Sip has had to leave for an engagement out of his office. I don't know whether he's still with us, but if he is, I would certainly ask if we allow him to speak because he does have to leave. I do see Mr. Sus with us. He's
raising his hand. I also know that Mr. Mosley wanted to speak, so I don't know which of you would like to go for as Mr. Sus has to leave. Mr. Why don't you go Yanni? Uh, thank you very much everyone. Thank you, Attorney Green, Chair Joyce, uh,
board members, Yanni Sippus with WS Development. We are the owner of the commercial uh unit uh at the Echelon complex. The Echelon complex is a large mixeduse complex within a large mixeduse neighborhood, the Seapport District. Uh we've been working on project of which
the Echelon is a part since 2007 and are striving to make this neighborhood an incredibly vibrant, you know, beautiful active mixeduse uh regional destination for uh people to come and live and work and uh enjoy and visit. Um and uh and
you know and this is something we we and our partners in government have been working on for many years. So we appreciate u um the consideration this morning. Um I would just like to echo what attorney Quilty has said about this the the work of developing a mixeduse neighborhood in which all of the
component uses and parts can work together and live together in harmony is a journey. It's a marathon. And um you know we've worked very closely uh with our colleagues in city government. We've worked very closely with uh our partners
in the neighborhood especially the seapport neighborhood association uh which has emerged in recent years as a wonderful sort of organizing factor uh for the residential uh uses in the neighborhood. Um and we're trying lots of new things. Uh most recently we've been working with the transportation
department around geo fencing of Ubers and lifts. We've made some proposals to um uh the streets cabinet uh to review uh options for for example moving uh TNC activity away from the residential entrances especially at certain hours.
That proposal is currently under consideration and there's a meeting in a couple of weeks to to chat about it. So, I think the characterization that attorney Quilty has set forth of this being an evolution, this being a journey um in trying to balance the interests of all of the different uses in the
neighborhood is accurate and we appreciate the board's consideration as we all work together to uh to try to achieve that. The only other thing I would add is that specific to the Echelon complex and I I understand that um Attorney Gains, you're could you just
clarify who who exactly you're representing? Are you representing the Echelon condominium complex as a whole or the Tower 2 primary condominium? I couldn't quite tell. Sure. As I said in my opening remarks, I represent the 133 and 135 Sapport residential condominium associations. Okay. So, two two of the
six uh components within the Echelon complex. There are six components. I appreciate that clarification. Um, you know, there is there are condominium documents complex that protect the rights um uh of all of the different
unit owners in the Echelon complex. And we, you know, we suggest that it may be appropriate for the board to simply defer to the condominium documents, the dispute resolution procedures that exist within those condominium documents. Um, recognizing that this is a private matter by and between uh private
condominium owners. Um, but we we appreciate the consideration. uh we're all working hard with other constituents in the neighborhood and within the Echelon mixeduse complex to address, you know, some of the concerns that have been raised and we look forward to continuing to do so. So, thank you very
much for the time. We really appreciate everybody's consideration. Uh thanks, Madam Chair. Thank you, Attorney Green and board members. Thank you, Mr. Zibus. I do want to give Mr. Mosley a chance to speak as well, but I know we had a hand raised a moment ago from Sydney from Councelor Flynn's office. if you're still with us. Um I
don't know if there is any anything you would like to add before we hear from Mr. Mosley and then move to questions from the board. Hi. Can you hear me? We can hear you. Yes. Okay. Uh thank you, Attorney Green, Madam Chair, members of the board. My name is Sydney. I'm from counselor Flynn's office. Please know over the
last several weeks, the counselor has received significant feedback from residents and met with neighbors nearby to discuss long-standing quality of life issues. These include loud music, consistent disturbances from loud patrons after 1:00 a.m. crowd control efforts pushing the existing issues to be street or nearby courtyards, alcohol
use in line, and the use of DJ each weekend. As a result of the consistent feedback from neighbors, councelor Flynn is respectfully requesting that the board take corrective action to help address these issues. Thank you. Thank you, Sydney. Uh, and thank you to the counselor. Um, so attorney, Mr.
Mosley. Um, if there's anything additional you'd like to add. Just would like Mr. Mosley to have the opportunity to address the board. Good morning, Gavin Mosley here. Uh, just to piggy back on on Dennis's uh, thoughts. Uh, we there has been some
progress. Um, this is a long-standing issue, one that we are not running away from. Um, I've owned with my team bars and restaurants in New York for over a decade now. So, the the sound and the the line control and the relationship between the tenant and the residents is
is something I'm not unfamiliar with. Uh, you know, I'm born and raised in Jamaica plane. I always wanted to come to Seapport. Um, and as a blackowned business here, one of a few, I am I take pride in that. And I say that because I
want to remain here. Um, I want to open more businesses here. And so it's very important to me and I'm taking this very seriously. Uh, I think as as Yanni and Dennis outlined, uh, I think the majority of people do not have an issue
here. Uh, the minority is is making a a big is making a big loud uh, statement. Um, and so that is not to undermine because every single person uh needs a good night's sleep and I care about that. I embrace and respect the community here. Uh, and so I am uh
doubling down on my commitment to do more uh and compromise. Uh, my fear is that some of the tenants just do not want us to exist. uh and that is a difficult situation because I want to continue conversations and discussions
and come to compromises that are mutually beneficial. Uh both might sting a little bit but I want to remain here for a number of years. Uh there are some residents that come down and and cause more disturbance. Uh we had one woman
come down and yell at my staff and call me names. Um, and I'm not going to mention who that is because I think it's counterintuitive to the pro to the productivity that I want to do here. Um, and so we've had people in that moment get very scared. And so some people
another person came down and put a video in front of everyone's face in line. Uh, no one likes that and that causes disturbance. And so I want to let the board know and the residents know that I am here not running away from this. I want to do more. Uh, and I hope that you
all collectively do more um and we can do so in a respectful manner and thank you for your continued support. Thank you, Mr. Mosley. Um, I I do see a hand raised before we move to any general testimony. I want to see if the chairman Joyce and members of the board
have any questions for the Lency or the petitioners. Um, I just have a question for you, Attorney Quilty. Last time we talked in February, uh, you walked me through the sound mitigation and the investments that your
team was putting into this space and I knew it was going to take time. I just wanted a status update on that sound mitigation and also I think we requested a written um, staff and security plan just to have on file. Um, so just a status update on those two things. Thank
you, ma'am. Um, yes, we I'm sorry. I'm I've got this dry cough. I apologize. Um we uh again as a result of one of the meetings I think well before the your February hearing. Uh we were on site. I
mean the the ownership and their sound engineers were on site. Uh there's space just above us that's called amenity space. And it was created in the development of the building for just this reason to keep a buffer between the business levels at the ground and first
floor and the residential above. Uh and apparently in within that area uh there were areas that were not addressed uh properly at the buildout time uh for sound mitigation. So that was, you know,
reviewed by our sound uh engineers and a plan was put into place to resolve those issues. Um I I'm sorry I we apparently did not provide the appropriate follow through on that. We'll be happy to do that, but that that too is a continuing
job, if you will. If you fill a hole over here and it doesn't stop it over somewhere else, it's it takes time to figure out exactly where everything's coming from and going to. I think that conversation was focusing on pulling more more people out at closing to help disperse the alliance. That's just kind of what I want to see that model in
writing. I understand. Yeah, that has been done. Okay. And we owe you a report on that. I apologize. Additional staffing has been made with an eye towards specifically dealing with folks as they leave, trying to keep people quiet,
moving people in in certain directions to keep them away from the building for Uber pickup and the like. That part is is for us the most difficult. But we think we have a a a solution working with the city in terms of saying, "Okay, we can force the Uber pickups to happen
here if we get the appropriate, you know, word from BTD, which we're working on." And we understand it. We're trying to push people away. We understand that. I mean, part of this building is an echo chamber. You know, there's a courtyard. It's an interior courtyard. And, you know, that's the way the building was
built. And the building was built with commercial uses at that very level. And it's it's it's something we have to deal with and we've hired additional people to do so and we'll give you a report on that. But we have we have added security specifically for that purpose.
Uh thank you Commissioner Con or Commissioner Saxon. Any questions for the lency or the petitioner at this time uh before we move to testimony? Um, I guess for attorney gains, what are the two violations you were talking about? Are they something that was
written up by the um by the police that that we have yet to adjudicate? I'm told that one of them was in February uh 2025 and it was issued by uh officer I I apologize. I don't know his title. Gallagher I know was last name.
And then I'm told there was another one on April 12th. Um I don't Are you aware of the the facts or the the nature of the what was written as a violation? Again, just from my notes from my client, they might be able to to speak more to this is that the first one in
February was for patrons uh drinking in line and overcrowding. And the one on April 12th, I believe, was also for an overcrowding violation at 12:30 a.m. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Just just for the record, the February uh violation had
already been uh heard, adjudicated, and disposed of and the lency was issued a warning. The April incident has not yet been scheduled for a hearing before this board has not yet been adjudicated. Just just to add to that, the lency is unaware until this moment of the
existence of the April 12th. No, we are aware of it. We are aware to uh correct Dennis and it I think the hearing was just scheduled this morning from on June 3. Um and it was for overcrowding not for noise. Uh but we'll
address that on June 3rd with the board. Commissioner Saxon, do you have any questions uh for the lency or for the petitioners? Yes, just um yes, sound sound is a very tricky thing to navigate, especially I mean since I'm hearing that there's like a
echo chamber with um a courtyard. What has the where the residents are? Has there been a sound engineer, environmental, acoustic engineer that has looked at that building? Whether the whether the windows are are not thick
enough or not trying to I'm just I'm just curious about um whether that building has been examined at all. Well, I guess it's it's all one building to some extent that the board cheetto's on the first floor and the residents are above it. Um there has not been a
someone who looked at acoustical engineer but they did install as I mentioned decel readers I think at the fifth floor uh in back at the beginning of April and and during the month of April there were many dates and times where the noise recorded on the fifth
floor particularly past uh 11 p.m. exceeded the 50 decel uh city limit. Yeah. and there and and that decel reading. Um has there been an engineer to figure out not just yes the sound is
coming from you know from uh the the lency but the way it bounces. I mean there's there's so many there's there's a there's a lot of things that go into like raising a decibel level. So just making sure that the that there is not
just a legal process but there actually is a scientist scientific process that you guys are taking. Sure. Well, I think that's really incumbent upon the lency frankly to they're the ones that are causing the noise. They need to the ones to mitigate the noise and and figure out how to do that. I I just want to make it
clear that we've not been asked to go into anybody's unit. Um, we were asked to look at the chamber, if you will, above us, which was the kind of amenity space because everyone assumed that's what was going on. And we've done that.
Um, so we've taken steps at our level and within our walls and in the space above us, this amenity center. Uh, we have no right to go into somebody else's unit. Haven't been asked to. Um, you know, I think our our job will be to do
everything we can do at our level to insulate and that's a continuing job. It's it's it's well underway, but it's a continuing job. Yanni can speak to that. I guess I would respond to that by by saying that those efforts obviously have not been productive and and clearly more
needs to be done because still too high. Please don't speak over each other. um what the commercial unit and the commercial unit owner are they within the the condo association that attorney
gains is representing or have they been legally separated? There's a sort of a master condo association if you would. There's there's a master Seapport res Seapport condominium association and the commercial unit is a unit within that as is the 133 building and the 135
building. those 133 and 135 have their separate kind of sub secondary associations if that it's sort of a complex condominium structure that you see a lot in Boston for these kind of mixeduse buildings but there the the commercial unit is technically in a separate condo association from
residential buildings if that makes if I may go ahead Mr. Thank you very much, Attorney Green, as as the owner representing the owner uh of the commercial condominium unit within the Echelon complex. The Echelon complex is a single condominium complex. It has a
single set of condominium documents, a master deed, a declaration of trust that governs the operations of the entire complex, all of the units within the complex. And so the rights uh of all of the unit owners, the commercial unit owners, the residential unit owners uh
are covered within those condominium documents. Um and it is and it you know those conducts have dispute resolution procedures like there you know there's a tremendous amount of specificity embodied within those documents. Um and are there any are there any actions
pending regarding the private uh dispute resolutions? We are unaware of any and frankly at Matt I don't think we've ever heard from we as the as the commercial unit owner I don't think we've ever even heard from you on behalf of your clients. So we would welcome that conversation. We believe this is a
private matter by between the tower 2 primary residential unit uh who all of the petitioners live in with the exception of one and the commercial unit owner. We'd be happy to have that conversation. I do have one other uh comment about uh the decibel readers. Attorney gains. Is it possible to
discern from those decibel readers the difference between noise made by a patron of the Borito establishment from noise made by somebody walking on the street who you know was not at Borito from a truck passing by from an airplane
flying over? Is there any from noise within the building from another condominium unit within the building having a party? Is there any way to discern the origin of the noise that you reference on the fifth floor of this building? Well, the residents can speak to that because they could say, "Yes, at
this time I heard this noise. It wasn't a truck. It was people congregating outside Borito or music from Borito." So, they can you kind of read those two together, right? You have the reading. Then you have the the residents who can say, "Yeah, at that at at 2 am on this date, it wasn't a truck. It was noise or
music from um Borito." Thank you. Thank you. Um we do have three hands raised. Chairman, are we taking um additional public testimony on this matter? Sure. We'll take um a couple minutes of
public testimony. We'll limit it to what we normally limit public testimony to. Danny, great. So that will be two minutes um per individual. There are now four hands raised. First hand that I see raised Martin Gay. Uh you may unmute yourself and you'll have up to two minutes uh to provide any testimony for
the board. beginning now. Thank you very much. I'm Martin G. I'm a resident of 135 Seport U in the floors of the building. So I'll talk to the noise nuisance that we're dealing with as patrons are entering train or exiting
Bidto. I'll let other residents talk to the uh the noise disturbance coming from the loud music. So couple of things that I want to mention. Operating hours. Uh I don't have to tell the board that there's a difference between the license and the operating hours. So, Saver, for example, didn't know they had a 2 a.m.
close time, but they're closed at 11:00 p.m. So, I want to make sure there's a distinction between operating hours and licenses. Um, the continued effort by Borachio, they've been engaged in the dialogue, but we've been at this for more than six months, and it doesn't
matter what they do to for the crowd control portion. It's still the same issues. They are putting more uh security, but it's definitely not helping. We're dealing with the same exact issue every Friday and Saturday consistently we are woken up and uh at
you know anywhere between 11 11 p.m. and 2 am uh and uh and then you know uh as of last Tuesday this week there was also the same disturbances of patron screaming. It's not a function of how crowded Borachito is. There could be 100
patrons, there could be two patrons. It only take two to exit Boracito uh and be screaming for us to be waken up. So, uh, I don't buy the argument that, you know, oh, well, Tuesday was not busy and it can't be the Baracido crowd. Uh, there's no other establishments that are open
till 2:00 a.m. Uh, in the the the the, you know, next to our building, there's, I think, the Grand and maybe the the Seport Social, but they're pretty far away. And to insinuate that it's the residents of the Echelan that are loud
at 2 am in the morning screaming outside of our building coming back from partying and so on so forth I think for me is is ludicrous. Uh and you know to try to deflect the uh the issue uh you know doesn't sit very well with me. Um you're just about at your two minutes if there's a final point you would like to
make for the board. More recently, Baracito has has asked their security to push patrons away from uh over our building. It's just moving the problem. Uh and the petition, by the way, it's only 27 because it was word of mouth. Uh but as you see from a number of people
on this call, there's a whole lot more people. Uh and if we want more signature, I'm sure that a whole lot more people than 27 will be signing. We just stopped there because we knew that we had reached. Thank you, Mr. Gate. The next hand I see raised is from a PK. I'm going to ask you to unmute as well. will have two minutes beginning now.
Good afternoon. Thanks for the time. Uh I am a resident of Echelon. I've been here for the past 5 and a half years since the doors opened. I live on a 12th floor. Um and I do hear loud music on a regular basis. Um sound does flow. As
you know, the entrance to Baro Cheeto is in an al cove. It's enclosed in addition to it being in an in a courtyard. So the location of of the restaurant and bar is an issue. Um, I frequent Baracito on a regular basis. I go there for both food
and drinks. I enjoy there and I want you guys to be successful. But I think there is quite a bit that you guys can do to be better um better community members. Uh I have, as an example, on all the occasions I've been there, I have never been carded. Not at the bar, not at the
tables. Um I know there's no vaping or smoking permitted in the building. I've seen your patrons smoke and vape. Nothing's ever said by staff. I think you can do a lot more with staff training. Same thing with entrance to security. Um I've been there when it's
packed and I've left and I don't believe that you meet your obligations to limit uh guests and patrons. Again, I want you guys to be successful, but your hours are long. Um, if we look at all the five
ownerowned buildings uh in the Seapport, none of them are open to 2:00. The latest one is 11 p.m. has an 11 p.m. closing. Those are the ownerowned uh residences. And this goes for Yanni as well. And and I encourage you to take a look at all the other
ownerowned buildings. Again, we're not tenants. We're owners of this building. And I believe of the six uh condominiums, it's not two of the six. I think it's four. Two of the six are resident towers. Two are parking
structures. Um so not correct to say it's only two of six. Sir, you are approaching your two minutes as well. If there's a final point you would like to make for the board, and I'm not one of those 25 who signed on. So I just want to give examples that you know I'm joining this to make sure that you get
back from everyone and I want you guys to be successful, but those hours are not acceptable. Thank you very much. move to Angelica Nuhi Apel if I mispronounced that. You will also have two minutes to provide your testimony to the board. Thank you. Good morning
everyone. My name is Angelica Nui. I work for Cottonwood Group um which is the parent entity for the developer of the Echelon project as well as the owner of tower 3 in the echelon seor project which is a multif family residential
building comprising 270 multifamily units for rents uh the south garage as well as the innovation center um I just wanted to make a couple of clarifying points um to what has been discussed up
up until this point what has been said uh but I believe it was a turn quilty um starting with the petition I believe it was mentioned that there are 717 units in the project which is correct however that includes the 270
uh multifamily units which have not been brought into this conversation um up until this point. So the numbers of signatures that were collected um do include 270 apartments that up until my
participation in this were not involved in this conversation. Um the second point I would like to make um which I also believe was made by um attorney Quilty is um Borachito and its owners
did gain access to um some of the areas in the project specifically the innovation center which again we own and it's located on the second floor of tower 2 at 135 seport um access was requested from the Boroto team to Barkin
which is the property management company for um the two condominium towers, tower one and tower 2. Um without contacting the ownership group, us um at that point bargain reached out to us to um make us
aware of the situation and connected us with the Borachito team. um they reached out to us and requested to have someone uh who I believe was a sound engineer um
to access the innovation space um and do a walk and inspection or something of that nature which they were granted to do. So the representation that um the tenant has not been able to access
spaces outside of the commercial owner and their specific suite um is factually correct. Thank you m Thank you. Yeah, Miss Newy. Those are that is above your two minutes. Anything additional can be provided in writing to the board as well. Uh I see a hand raised from a Mr.
William Mitch. Uh you may also provide your testimony. You will have two minutes to do so. Hi, thanks. Can you hear me? We can hear you. Great. I appreciate it. Um, so my name is Will Mitch. I live and own in Tower 1, which is 133 Seapport
Boulevard. Uh, I've been here with my wife since March of 2020. Uh, we were excited for Bor Cheto then, uh, to arrive and we we continue to remain happy with its service. So, I'm on this call um not as one of the 27 petitioners
because I want to voice my support for the restaurant. Uh we enjoy it. We like it. Uh obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be uh voicing the support, but uh you know, our master master bedroom is directly above the courtyard. Um and though I don't truthfully recall ever
being awoken by a human, uh usually if I am, it's by planes or cars. Uh I'm I'm not uh naive to the fact that I bought a home that is directly located above the Superet, which is a public and communal space uh within the Seapport that can draw people or attract people from
different parts of the neighborhood u you know at any point of the of the day. It's not it doesn't close at night. Um and so it's it's certainly a tough situation uh for the for the institution and for the residents and I understand both sides. uh you know if I was losing sleep
I I I would I would support you know whoever everybody deserves good sleep and so um I get it but at the same time like like uh one of the individuals early on in the call said like this is a mixeduse building uh and a mixeduse neighborhood and uh we're kind of like
our own little uh neighborhood in the sky almost and uh I I I am happy with the restaurant and I am happy with our our accommodations and the living situation. Um, I think all parties have have really worked to kind of come together over the last couple months.
So, I appreciate it. Uh, that's all for me. Thanks for everybody's time. Thank you very much. Uh, I see Marty Galvin with a hand raise. There are two remaining hands. So, Marty Galvin, um, you are next. You will have two minutes beginning now. All right. Thank you very much. Hello everyone. My name is Marty
Galvin. Uh, I have been a resident here at Echelon for two years. And uh similar to to Will, I just wanted to voice my support uh for Borico. Um I do feel that there's um you know have heard from a
lot of folks kind of on the opposition and completely empathize with the fact that um you know if there there is noise then that's something that should be addressed. And I I do think you know just from what I've I've heard that um seemingly that they've taken steps to do
so. Um, so I just want to reiterate the sentiment that there is a lot of support for echelon residents and um, I do think it's just a smaller majority. Again, completely empathize with the fact that if it's loud, it's loud and there needs to be steps taken. Um, but I don't think
Borchito is particularly noisy. I guess you know, SEO in general, as we all know, is there's a certain buzz. I mean, it's it's the middle of a a very uh exciting part of the city. Um, so just wanted to to chime in and say that um,
you know, the majority of residents in my opinion do support for Cheito and uh, I do hope it's here for a long time. Thank you much. Thank you very much. The last remaining hand I see is by Anna Karolina Costa. Um, we will then close off public testimony. Any additional
testimony can be submitted in writing to the board at licensing board at bboston.gov. Um, following Miss Caroline Costa's um, uh, testimony, we'll see if there are any remaining questions from the board and then both the petitioner and the lency will have the opportunity to make any closing statements for the board. And Caroline Costa, you'll have
two minutes starting now. Hi everyone, my name is Anna Costa. I've lived here since April of 2023. These issues have started in October of 2023. So, it's been quite some time. I'm on the fifth floor, so I don't have
anyone living below me. We hear music a lot. I've had things up on my wall that have fallen down because of vibrations. We have addressed this with the building manager many times over since October of
2023. Nothing has been resolved. We cannot sleep. This past Tuesday, we had issues. It was loud. There was a Celtics game. Maybe that was what you guys were celebrating. I don't know. But it was
loud and something really needs to be done. I go outside my door. I get harassed by Boracito patrons. Sexually, explicitly harassed as a woman getting called
names. I don't think that's okay. I've lived in Boston for 10 years. I've lived in the Back Bay, the South End. I understand there's going to be noises. I'm a city person. There's planes. There's sirens. But music in my
unit. That's not okay. We pay a lot of money to live here. It's just absolutely appalling. And this has been going on for a long time. Borito has had a long time to fix things. And I have emails
providing that, you know, they can come into my unit. They should come into my unit at 1:00 a.m. 2 a.m. to hear the music that's going on. Excuse me, my hand was up. Can I have a moment to speak? Sorry. Yes, we I did not see a hand
raised, but um Sure. Chair Madress, can we take one more? Okay. Thank you. Um I'm just going to add quickly um I have heard about a resident being harassed by Boroto patron and before Borito says like oh well that's not our patron you can't say they were actually walking out
of Boroto and addressed her and harassed her. Um also the WS is saying that this noise airplanes airplanes don't fly at 2 am and no we don't have a surplus of food delivery at 1 and 2 am at the
morning at our building. I think where um residents are getting very frustrated is there's been a lot of deflection from Borito. They have not been good at communicating us. I can show you all of the text messages where I've been bounced from Hope to McKenzie to WS.
I've reached that I was told WS would reach out to me. They never did. I emailed them. They never got back to me. I'm sorry. I'm very frustrated. This has been six months of having no sleep every weekend. It is very, very frustrating. And as far as Gavin saying somebody
videoing people and putting the camera in their faces is a complete lie. And I'd be happy to share you that video. That video was taken to show the level of noise which on a decel reader read up to 93.7. And that is a decel reader that
was recommended by Constable Gallagher. So these deflections that Borito keeps doing is very very infuriating saying it's residents making the noise. It's food delivery. We have it on video. It is the Borio patrons and
we're fed up and we're frustrated and we're not going to stop until we get sleep. We're very, very frustrated. And the longer this goes, the angrier we get. And as far as the petition, that was by word of mouth. And a lot of people are on vacation or have secondary
homes from this place. But now the list of Echelon residents is growing. And the longer this goes on, the angrier we become and the louder we're gonna get. We've had enough and we're tired of this deflection from Borito and their lawyer.
It was very frustrating. Thank you, Maren. With that, that is the end of public testimony. Are there any uh questions from the board following the testimony that we've just heard before we hear once again from the petitioners and the lency? I don't have any additional questions
right now. Commissioner Carer, Commissioner Saxon. Uh, no questions. Thank you. Nothing from me. Thank you. Uh, thank you. Uh, Attorney Gains, are there any
closing statements you would like to make on behalf of the petitioners in this matter? Sure. Thank you. I'll be brief. Um, you know, there are a lot of comments made about all the time and efforts and money that Bor Cheto has been spent. That may be true, but the reality is it's not yielding any results at all. And you know, maybe
soundproofing above works a little bit, but it's not going to control the overcrowding. And whether there's six residents, 600 or or residents that are upset, again, the reality is they're violating the city ordinances on the decibel level. And at the end of the day, there is one simple solution to
this problem. Changed closing time for Boroccino. If you move that up to 11 or 12, all of this pretty much all this goes away. And I think that really is what needs to be happen here. Thank you. Thank you. And attorney Quilty, if there
are any final statements you'd like to make on behalf of the Lency. Very briefly, when I suggested due process before, I simply meant to continue the work that we've been doing with the residents in terms of trying to figure out where the problems are and trying to resolve them. We think that it's been
very um meaningful and successful over the last many weeks, but it will have to continue and more work will have to be done on on uh you know on our part to make sure that we're doing everything we can to cooperate. So, thank you very
much for hearing us today and uh we look forward to continuing to work with the residents on these issues. Thank you all for being with us this morning. Um that will adjourn this portion of the hearing. theformational hearing. Any additional testimony can be submitted to the board at licensing
board@boston.gov. The board will take this matter under advisement. And as we move on to the uh voting agenda portion of this morning's hearing, there will be no additional public testimony accepted this morning. Thank you. Thank you very
much. Moving on to the voting hearing. We'll begin with the license premise inspection hearing which occurred on Tuesday, April 29th, 2025. Item number one, Boston Ballroom Corporation doing business as Royale located at 279 Tremont Street. Date of
the incident, November 23rd, 2024, assault and battery, a dangerous weapon, two counts, performer on patron in violation of mass general laws, chapter 138, section 64 and chapter 265, section 15A. There we go.
Sorry. I'm sorry, Danny. You want me to We are We're on the first item on the license inspection hearing. Thanks. Hold on. Sure. This was the performer assault. Correct. I don't I if I could jump in, give you a moment. There we go. I didn't think there was much
foreseeability proven here. So, I had a no violation in this one. Yeah, I think it was a rogue performer. Appreciate that. Yeah, as did I. I saw the I saw the video. It came out of nowhere. Great. No violation on item one. Thank
you. Item number two, facility concession services LLC doing business as Spectrum located at 89 Guest Street in Brighton. Date of the incident, December 1st, 2024. Assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. patron on patron in violation of mass general laws chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265
section 15A. I think for me the question here um while we were waiting for additional information that was submitted um was whether or not this was like a foreseeable assault and battery. Um there definitely was a physical fight inside that
um was over very quickly and I think the staff had an appropriate response to that. Then there was a very intense verbal argument outside. We received an affidavit from security um that at the time of that verbal
argument outside. He was doing his job, he was uh focused on the dispersal at the end of the evening. He saw the actual suspects. I'm sorry. He um did not see anything with that verbal dispute that would lead him to believe that additional
um response was required. These these are my notes. Um I guess you know again should the venue have done more? You know was this stabbing across the street foreseeable? Um I wonder you know the the suspect was
seen going into Roadr Runner but we don't know exactly when he left. We don't know what he did between being leaving Roadr Runner and then the stabbing occurring. Um I don't I don't see that the staff
could have done more here. So um I don't see a violation. I agree after going through everything I had a no violation. Um I did want to raise you know kind of an issue that might I might suggest we
might want to dock it. Um and it's something I've noticed. I mean, so this was a very serious matter and I didn't feel like the presentation from the from the premises was really showed the weight of that. Um, their reaction
to really getting to the bottom of it. I I found it was inadequate especially and this is what I might want to talk it and I I see it as analogous to not bringing relevant video which they did give us great video and I commend them for that but the not having that recipient
witness show up. I I just I found it to be problematic and and I would like to have it on the docket that they failed to bring in a a you know a vital recipient witness um because you know
they were very specific that you know there was no way they could have foreseen the um stabbing across the street. And I accept the affidavit, but I also don't, you know, want to state that it it's in some senses it's inadequate. It would have been better to
have that witness at the hearing where we could have seen them testify to what they're saying in their affidavit and we could have, you know, ask questions of them. So, um, I just I had a no violation. Um, you know, I didn't want
to and like put any conduct like that was just private across the street on them, but I think they relied too much on that it did happen across the street. And I think they were heavily relying that hap happened across the street and even if it was 10 minutes later, I think
that there could have been a connection there. And I think that they showed a lack of seriousness in and addressing that potential connection. So that's what I have. appreciate that. Yeah, I I definitely
agree. Um I I I also found no violation, but I actually thought that the the fight outside um warranted someone calling the police. Like I like I don't I they called
additional um team members, but I just I would have made the call. And I don't know whether that would have prevented um something, you know, the stabbing that happened across the street, but I I would also
um I would just recommend that they just make the call. you know, the he expressed that um they were ignoring him, they were ignoring his commands to separate, that they were, you know, in a
heated argument even though he didn't hear what they were saying. Um I just think that that is the time to just pick up the phone and call. So should we um dock at this and suggest that they retrain the staff um
specifically about dis appropriate dispersal procedures um and deescalation? Yeah, dispersement, deescalation, calling the police, doing in the during the doing a proper internal
investigation afterwards. Great. So, this is something that the board would like to see a plan on or that we are suggesting they retrain staff on. Uh, how what would the board like how would the board like to dispose of this? Yeah, I would like something that we could add to their docket.
Great. Sheet for reference moving forward. So, then the board will ask uh the Lency to retrain staff and present a plan in writing on dispersal, deescalation, calling police and investigatory procedures following an incident.
And uh Commissioner Curran, you would also like it noted on the docket sheet that the Lency failed to present a witness with firsthand knowledge of the incident. That's correct as well. I think that would be appropriate if it if it's okay with the other commissioners. Sure. Yes. Yeah. Right.
And we've we've talked about this, you know, with other licenses like people who have firsthand knowledge. That is what we are prioritizing. That will be specifically docketed for this incident as well with a no
violation. Item number three, Big House Fine Dining LLC doing business as Scampo and Alibi located at 215 Charles Street. Date of the incident, December 1st, 2024. Assault and battery, dangerous weapon, patronon employee. in violation of mass general laws chapter 138 section
64 and chapter 265 section 15A and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon patron on patron in violation of mass general laws chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265 section 15A I did not see a violation here I agreed
I agreed item number four ATG Inc. doing business as clearies located at 331 to 335 Columbus A. Date of the incident December 1st, 2024. Salt and battery patron on patron in violation of Mass General Laws chapter 138 section 64 and
chapter 265 section 13A. We did receive video of this large fight that happened outside of Claries. Um it's unclear whether the suspect in the fight was actually inside. I did not see a violation on the part of
the Lenc but I do believe um we should send them correspondence about this. I think they should have um they should have called the police earlier. I agree. No violation correspondence from the
board uh of duty to call police. Item number five will be continued to the next available hearing date. Item number six, the Boston Leco Corp. located at 71 to 79 Warrington Street. Date of the incident January 10th, 2025. Assault and battery patron on patron in violation of Mass General
Laws chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265 section 13A. And assault and battery on police officer times 2 in violation of Mass General Laws chapter 138 section 64 and chapter 265 section 13D. Uh, I'd love to hear from the other
commissioners as well. This was a really large fight that went on for a really long time that spilled into the street, resulted in police officers getting hit and assaulted. The people involved in the fight were resisting arrest. Um, there was no control over the
situation. Um, the Lency did attempt to, you know, pull the women off of each other. There was attempts to deescalate. Um, but I'm not quite sure if there's anything more the bar could have done.
Um, I'm curious to hear from the other commissioners. Yeah, I mean I didn't know I'm the exactly the same thought process. I don't know what they could have done. I mean, yeah, I I don't No, I mean this might go to a larger issue about their
dispersal and how they disperse and you know how many people they're putting out onto the street all at the same time and stuff like that. I mean that the these are issues we've kind of discussed with them in the past. So I don't know if we want to use this as an opportunity to talk about that or docket it. I I don't
know. But as far as the case that was presented to us, uh, I didn't have anything particular or specific that in, you know, said that the L E did anything wrong. I'm actually drawing a blank.
What was the spark? Was there any What was the the Did was there testimony that that led us to believe that there could have been something that started all of this? No, there wasn't. I I think I I don't there was
I'm sorry Commissioner I don't mean to interrupt you. I think what Commissioner Kurum was touching up on Paul in there this area seems to have reoccurring issue at dispersal which is something that we are looking at even you know broader than just this one incident at this one location. I think here we are
again with a horrible um fight on the street that resulted in a ton of police response. Um, I think it might be we we might want to take a look at all of these licences together and what happens at closing to see if there is like
something bigger we can do to help them. The lency did the right thing. He cancelled the night. They called the police. They did their best, but it was like beyond their control. So, I think I've mentioned this before in hearings. we really need to look at this general area and when things let out to see if
there's something we can do to make sure people, you know, these fights aren't happening in the middle of the street. Um so with that I just I I don't see a violation here but I would like just to note that um this falls in that area of
the city that at night um we're having issues with closing hours and I don't necessarily think asking at first I thought maybe the issue was that we needed to have them close earlier. I don't think that's the issue. I I think we've reached out
to some of the other licences too and we should continue the conversation. and they had some good ideas and it might be something we should call these licences in for talk to them about it and see if we can come up with something creative to make sure people get out of these clubs safely at night. Um it really is a strain on resources of both the licences
and Boston police when repeatedly they're being called um to disperse crowds and to stop fights. Yeah, I mean I second that 100%. I mean, they so they didn't do anything wrong under the rules and structure that's in place, but maybe we need to tweak the
rules and structure and see if we can get a better result. Yeah, I think we should take the next uh couple weeks and put our heads together to see what we can come up with to help them. I agree. For the matter directly in front of the board, it sounds like this
is a no violation across the board. [Music] Moving on to item number seven, MWNW, Inc. doing business as China Pearl Restaurant located at 5 to 9A Tyler Street. Date of the incident, March 22nd, 2025. Assault and battery with a
dangerous weapon, gunshot, patron on patron in violation of Mass General Laws, Chapter 138, Section 64, and Chapter 265, section 15A. Failure to call police in violation of Mass General Laws chapter 138 section 64 and board's rule 1.14B. Failure to cooperate with police, door
locked in violation of Mass General Law Chapter 138, section 64, and board's rule 1.10 A and B, and entertainment taking place after posted 2 a.m. close. I want to wait till we get the police body cameras because I think it will refute some of the statements made
by their attorney. There's a I don't have a lot that I'm um a lot of outstanding questions, but I do want to see the the police footage that we get, the camera footage. to defer. Yeah, willing to defer. Yeah,
this will be uh deferred to allow the board to receive and review police body camera footage. Item number eight, DD West Broadway Boston LLC doing business as Dumpling, Inc. located at 475 West Broadway in South Boston. Date of the incident, March 7th, 2025. Premise open
past posted closing hour. Door Dash and their website post a 2:45 to 3:00 a.m. close uh which is later than their posted 1:00 a.m. close on weekends in violation of Mass General Laws chapter 140 section 9. Uh I vote for violation.
Yeah, they've admitted to it. Yes. So this would just be a first warning. Violation with a first warning. Moving on to the transactional hearing occurred yesterday, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. Item number one, Newbian Nutrition LLC doing business as
Pure Green Boston located at 11:35 Harrison A in Roxberry has applied for a common victular license. Uh manager Carla Gomes hours of operation 7 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. I vote to approve. I agree. I agree.
Item two, Kings Tea House FS LLC doing business as Chicha Sanchen located at 101 Boilston Street has applied for a common vitular license. manager and I Arnold Tang Thong hours of operation 11 am to 9 pm. I vote to approve um the
license, but I do want them to continue with the community process. I agree. I agree. License granted. Uh and the board asks the lency to continue the community process. Item three, Eddie Merllo's LLC
doing business at Sullivan Steakhouse at located at 505 Congress Street has petitioned to change the DBA to Eddie Merllo's. I vote to approve the change. I agree. I agree. Item four, Putt Shack Boston Seapport LLC doing business as
Putt Shack located at 58 Pier 4 Boulevard has petitioned to change the manager to Evan Meyers. I vote to approve Mr. Myers as manager of record. I believe he has the appropriate character and fitness to serve. I agree. I agree.
Item five, ALe and JC Brothers Inc. doing business as Umega Arukara located at 70 Pier 4 Boulevard has petitioned to change the manager to Wilson Javanni Garcia. I vote to approve Mr. Garcia's manager of record. I believe he has the appropriate character and fitness to
serve. I agree. I agree. Items six, seven, and eight, Massachusetts Sports Service, Inc. doing business as TD Garden, as Legends, and as Viva Victory Den, all at 100 Legends Way. As petition to change the manager of all three licensed businesses to
Amanda Ruth Slatterie. I vote to approve Miss Slatterie as a manager of record. I believe she's the appropriate character in fitness. I agree. Great. Item nine, Back Street Boston Lesie LLC doing business as Pennyweight
Hotel located at 155 Portland Street. This petition to change the manager to Mary Johanna Miles. I vote to approve Miss Miles as manager of record. I believe she's the appropriate character in fitness. I agree.
Three. Item 10. Hilton Management LLC doing business as Hilton Boston Logan Airport located at one hotel drive in East Boston has petitioned for a change of officers directors LLC managers. I vote to approve.
I agree. I agree. Item 11, Ambridge Hospitality LLC doing business as Embassy Suites Hotel located at 207 Porter Street in East Boston has petition for a change of officers directors LLC managers.
I vote to approve. I agree. I agree. Item 12, Buchiladi LLC doing business as Mama Maria located at 3 North Square has petition to amend the description of the licensed business to 3,472 square ft. Four floors to be licensed consisting of first floor with
three rooms, two dining areas, service bar and kitchen, bathroom and common area. Second floor with four rooms, four dining areas and service bar, bathrooms and common areas. Third floor with five rooms, bar, waiting area, administrative, prep space, storage and liquor storage, bathroom and common
areas, and basement with three rooms, kitchen, service area, and storage and bathroom. Premises include one entrance and exit from North Square, one entrance and exit on Garden Court Street that is handicapped accessible, and one side exit for emergencies and stock on Garden Court Street. Seating capacity of 35 on
the first floor, 49 on the second floor, and 15 on the third floor. Mama Maria is a long-standing Italian restaurant located in a 19th century rowhouse in the north end. The applicant has also petitioned for a change of ownership interest. I app I vote to approve the changes requested.
I agree. I agree. Items 13 and 14 were not heard and will be continued to the May 14th transactional hearing. Item 15, stripped by Straga LLC, located at 50 Park Plaza, has petition to transfer the license to BPP Retail LLC
at the same location. Jonathan Krellin, manager, 2 a.m. closing hour. I vote to approve. Mr. Krellin is manager of record. I believe he has the appropriate character and fitness to serve. I vote to approve the transfer.
And um that's it. I agree. I agree. Item number 16, Number Nine Park LLC doing business as number nine Park located at 9 Park Street. Has petition to transfer the license to Nine Restaurant Group LLC doing business as 9
at the same location. Bertilda Grochowski, manager, 1:00 a.m. closing hour and has also petitioned to pledge the license to 9 PSR LLC. I vote to approve the transfer. I vote to approve uh Mr. Gowski as manager of
record. Um, and I also vote to approve the pledge. I agree. I agree. Item 17 will also be continued to the May 14th transactional hearing. Item 18, the Nean Marcus Group LLC doing business
as Nean Marcus located at 5 Copley Place has petitioned to transfer the license and the location to LTF Club Operations Company, Inc. doing business as Lifetime located at 800 Boilston Street, space 179 within the credential center. Kyle Hollander, manager, 12 a.m. closing
hour. The applicant has also petitioned to change the license type to a section 12 restaurant. I vote to approve the transfer uh the change of category and I vote to approve the manager record. Um I believe he has appropriate character and fitness to
serve. I agree. Agree. Item 19, Distraction Brewing Company LLC located at two Belgrade A in Roslandale has petitioned to transfer the license to Emergency Exit Brewing LLC doing
business as Distraction Brewing Company at the same location. John Graham, manager, 11 p.m. closing hour. I vote to approve the changes requested and Mr. Graham is manager of record. I agree. I agree.
Item number 20, A and G L liquor store LLC located at 170 South Street in Jamaica Plane has applied for a retail package store all alcoholic beverages license. Manager Alexander Gene Michelle. Closing time 11 p.m. There was a request from the neighborhood for a
9:00 p.m. closing hour which the applicant did agree to during the hearing. Uh the applicant also agreed not to sell nips and singles and to have um an ID checker on site as well as to keep their
floor plan on site. So um I vote to approve Mr. J Michelle's manager of record and to approve the license with the conditions that were discussed. I agree. I agree. Right. And the conditions just
so I have them being uh no nips, no singles, no increase to the floor space dedicated to alcohol without board approval and floor plan must be on site at all times and the ID checker. Got it. Great. But that the lency must have an ID scanner on premise. I'm sorry.
This was a dedicated liquor store. You're right. It's not It's not food. Yeah. So it's not the floor plan one. I think that's the next. Oh, you are correct. This is a brand new place going into a previously. Yeah, the whole the whole place is going to be a liquor store, right? You are you are correct. So, conditions are just no
nibs, no singles, and licency must have an ID checker or ID scanner on on premise. Yes. Great. And the board is approving a 9:00 p.m. or 11 p.m. close. And the 9:00 p.m. close. Um I know they wanted later at first, but they're responding to the
needs of the neighborhood. Should the neighborhood and the licences agree to expanding those hours, they can come back. Approved with a 9:00 p.m. close and they don't have no snow singles and ID scanner conditions. Item number 21. Angori Inc. doing business as Alustin
Market located at 169 Harvard A in Alustin has applied for a retail package store. All alcoholic beverages licensed. Manager Anju Rana. Closing time 10 p.m. I vote to approve Miss Ron as manager of record. Um I believe she's the character
and fitness to serve. This is the one where they are going to remove two shelves in the back of the market and um use those to sell the u for their alcohol sales. So I would like to um put
on the face of the license the conditions that they don't sell nips and singles. Um, I would like them to use an ID scanner and to keep a floor plan um on site for inspection. I think that covers it.
I think it does too. I agree across the board. I agree. Uh, approved with the conditions just discussed. No dips, no singles, ID scanner, no increase to the floor space uh to get to alcohol without board approval and floor plan must be on site at all times.
The remaining items are all new on premise license applications. Um, uh, Chairman Joyce, are we deliberating on these or would you like to hold until after the May 23rd application deadline? I would like to hold them till after the May 23rd deadline. Items 22 through 28 will be deferred until after um, all
applications heard uh, until applications submitted by May 23rd have been heard. The board held anformational hearing this morning, Thursday, May 1st, 2025, regarding Densenko LLC doing business as Borito the Garrett Boston located at 70 Pier 4 Boulevard regarding
the operational procedures including noise mitigation, hours of operation, and crowd control upon receipt of a resident's petition pursuant to the board's rule 1.19B and mass general laws chapters 138 sections 23 and 64. I don't know if the board has any comments uh or would like to take any action following
theformational hearing. I'd like to defer it for um 45 to 60 days. Give an opportunity to work through some of the sound mitigation. I will probably go out and take a do a site visit, but um I'd like to defer it for now.
Deferral sounds good. Agreed. No action taken today. Deliberation will be deferred. Moving on to non-heering transactions. The following are applying for a new conventure location at a previously licensed location. Not new conventure license at a previously
licensed location. Item one, Soul Taste, Inc. doing business as Coranos, located at 172 Brighton A in Alustin. Manager Alicia Kai, hours of operation 9:00 a.m. to 11 p.m. I vote to approve. I agree. I agree.
Head number two, 22 Beacon Coffee LLC doing business as Bond located at 22 Beacon Street. Manager is Aad El Sharif. Hours of operation 5:00 a.m. to 11 p.m. I vote to approve. I agree.
Item three, CFH35 Cambridge Park Drive LLC doing business as Drip by Craft Food Halls located at two dry dock A. Manager Shayen Mcgory. Hours of operation 7 am to 6 p.m. I vote to approve. I agree.
Item four, Viva Burrito Boston, Inc. Doing business as Viva Burrito, located at 92 Peterborough Street. Manager Ali Toki. Hours of operation 10:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. I vote to approve. I agree. Agree.
Item number five, Mission Hill Donuts LLC doing business as Duncan located at 1621 to 1631 Blue Hill A in Madapan. Manager Gio Barbosa. Hours of operation 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. I vote to approve. I agree. I agree.
And item number six, SPD Hospitality LLC doing business as Wishing Cup located at 45 Court Street. Manager size Sagi. Hours of operation 6:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. Vote to approve. I agree. I agree.
Following applied to make changes to their existing common vigor licenses. Item number one, Chipotle Mexican Grill of Colorado LLC. doing business as Chipotle Mexican Grill number 2622 at 8 Park Plaza has petitioned to change uh the officers director's LLC managers to
Helen Kaminsky as LLC manager vote to approve I agree I agree item two DD West Broadway Boston LLC located uh doing business as Dumpling Daughter Inc. located at 475 West Broadway, South Boston, has
petitioned to change the operating hours of the business to 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. 7 days a week. Currently, they're only open till 1:00 a.m. Thursday through Sunday. I vote to approve. I do as well. I agree. Following have applied to make changes
to their existing lodging house licenses. Items 1, two, and three. Arch Development Limited Partnership located at 1053 to 1055 Tremont Street, 1035 to 1039 Tremont Street, and 1049 to 1051 Tremont Street. Have petition to change the manager to of all three to Clifford
Bole. I vote to approve. I agree. Following applied for a one-day amendment to their existing licenses. Item one, Braymore Lounge, Inc. doing business as Cornwalls located at 642 to 648 Beacon Street has applied to extend
their license to the event space on their roof for a retirement party on May 9th from 4 to 9:00 p.m. to approve. I agree. Item two, 61 Brookline Restaurant LLC doing business as Loco Takaria and Oyster Bar located at 61 Brookline A has
petitioned to extend their closing hour by 1 hour to 2:00 a.m. for a private reservation on May 10th. Vote to approve. I agree. I agree. Item three, Railtop LLC located at 94 to 160
Guest Street in Brighton has petition to extend their license onto the area directly in front of the restaurant with a satellite bar for a summer series event on May 22nd, June 5th, June 26th, July 24th, August 1st, and September 6th from 3 to 11:00 p.m. and on June 7th,
and September 20th from 9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. I vote to approve. I agree. I agree. Item four, American Craft Brewery LLC doing business as the Boston Beer Company at 30 Germania Street in Jamaica
Plane has applied to extend their operating hours for a mini music festival uh on Boston Colin Weekend on May 22nd from 5:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. Vote to approve. I agree. Item five, same lency, American Craft
Brewery LLC doing business as Boston Beer Company at 30 Gmania Street in Jamaica Plane. has applied to extend their operating hours for the annual Sam Adams October Fest on September 26th from 5 to 11 PM. About to approve. I agree.
And item six, AHF Speedway Holdings LLC doing business as the Charles River Speedway at 1420 to 1440 Soldiers Field Road in Brighton has uh applied to extend their license onto their patio for a patio extension for the month of May, May 1st to May 23rd and May 26th to
May 31st from 12:00 to 11:00 p.m. About to approve. I agree. I agree. The board has before them a list of applications for special 1-day alcoholic beverages licenses which have been administratively reviewed by staff for approval by the
board. And there is one item on old and new business for acknowledgement. The board has received notification from the Suffach County Sheriff's Department uh that it has seized and will be selling at auction the liquor license of Adventure Investments Boston LLC doing business as Fire and Ice at 31 St. James
A uh in furtherance of an execution on money judgment issued against the Lency for $33,429 on May 6th, 2024. With that, those are all the items before the board this morning that will adjourn this hearing. Thank you all and please do enjoy the rest of your day.
Thank you. Thank you.