POST OFFICE PROJECT RESTAURANT LIQUOR LICENSE SOUGHT

The new restaurant slated for the former Maplewood Village Post Office project is a step closer to getting a liquor license as JMF Properties, developer of the site, formally applied to transfer a license from another entity.

The application, filed last month, states that Gladstone at Maplewood LLC, the entity formed to build the Clarus project on the former post office site, is seeking to transfer state liquor license 0711-33-020-005. That license is currently held by the former owners of the B. Hathaway Meeting Place on Springfield Avenue.

Gladstone at Maplewood is co-owned by JMF Properties and car dealer Steven Kalafer.

Tom Carlin, a Gladstone restaurant owner and Maplewood resident who is planning to open the new restaurant in the Clarus project, said Gladstone at Maplewood will later transfer the license to him. He would not reveal the price to be paid.