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| The former Santander Bank site on Springifled Ave. will soon be a liquor store |
At the same meeting, the TC, acting as the Alcohol Beverage Control Board, also approved the transfer of the liquor license held by the owners of the former Highland Place restaurant to Masoud Kian, who owns the building where the restaurant had been located. Kian said he will now seek to lease out the space to another restaurateur.
The license transfer application indicates that Kian purchased the license from the former Highland Place owner, Nilsatis Inc., for $120,000. Nilsatis initially lost the license after failing to pay taxes, which prompted it to shutdown the restaurant last summer. The license was to have been auctioned off by the state, but the auction was cancelled after Kian and Nilsatis indicated a deal to have it transferred.
The Santander Bank site, meanwhile, will be reopened as a liquor store by Atul Gupta, who successfully received approval from the ABC after acquiring the liquor license of the former Boyden Pantry at Boyden Avenue and Jacoby Street. Gupta, who also operates a store in Boonton, said he acquired it about eight months ago, but needed to find a location to open his shop. He plans to be in business at the former bank site by November 1.
Both approvals were granted unanimously, 5-0
2 comments:
As someone who lives down the block, I was a little surprised that the adjacent neighborhood was not informed of the proposed liquor store on the corner, typically bars and liquor stores are an issue of concern for neighborhoods. Recently many young families have moved on the block and historically liquor stores attract a certain level of riff raff which in turn brings crime. I would like to be assured by the township committee that if this liquor store starts to generate problems that it has the ability to be shut down for the sake of the neighborhood. Recently Springfield Ave. has had a number of issues including robberies and hold ups. I think it's good the empty building is occupied, but not if it brings problems. The store owner should be required to have a quality business beyond the typical run down liquor store, it should have a certain level of quality like the village wine store. It's too bad Springfield Ave cannot attract better businesses, beyond 24 hour gas stations and liquor stores
I hope everyone looks up this owner’s current liquor store in Boonton, NJ, it’s a total ghetto liquor store, not a nice craft beer store as marketed. I buy beer on Springfield Avenue, and we definitely are not talking about craft beer connoisseurs. 40 ouncers are the beer of choice. When the drunks are hanging out in the back parking lot, I want the township to assure us that the police will come and clear them out. Unfortunately, Our housing values just dropped.
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