Politics & Government
Liquor-Store Licenses on Tap at Selectmen's Meeting
Residents overwhelmingly favored the Mystic Wine Shoppe proposal in our poll, but who will the Board of Selectmen pick?
The are scheduled to present their respective cases to the Board of Selectmen tonight, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Each applicant is expected to go before the board for about a half-hour (10 minutes for their presentation, and then 20 for interested parties to speak and ask questions). The board plans to select the two winning applicants tonight.
, residents clearly favored Mystic Wine Shoppe as the top proposal.
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If selected, Mystic Wine Shoppe would go in at 901 Massachusetts Ave., the vacant building to the right of . It is being proposed by Eric Faiola, the owner of .
The top five vote-getters:
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*Results as of 9 p.m. Saturday, June 16.
Residents' comments:
S. Stevens: "Both should be given to NEW businesses that want to use a vacant commercial space so NEW businesses and tax revenues can be made."
Heights resident: "Mystic Wine. The building next to Stop & Shop needs to be occupied and spruced up. A new business there would be perfect."
Steve@Arlington: "Mystic Wine! Great location next to Stop & Shop. Allows for residents to do all their shopping in one easy trip while keeping the small business focus of our great town."
Laura: "Absolutely Mystic Wine!!! Great location and beautiful store front. It would be a great new addition to Arlington."
Julie: "Mystic Wine is the ideal choice; great location and the owners plans are to make the venue top notch. Arlington does not need convenience stores selling alcohol; move to another town if that is what you are looking for! Mass Ave will be moving forward with the addition of Mystic Wine!"
Heights resident: "Mystic Wine is a great location to renovate the current eye-sore on Mass Ave next to Stop & Shop. The photo rendition looks beautiful and will keep Arlingtonians supporting Arlington liquor business in Arlington Heights instead of jumping into Lexington's Berman's and Busa.
In case you've forgotten, here are the six applicants:
Name Address Applicant(s) Manager Square Feet Arlington Heights Liquors 469-473 Summer St. Thomas Vakalfotis Thomas Vakalfotis 2,500 Arlington Wine & Spirits 935 Massachusetts Ave. 3 P Corp., Paresh Patel and Pradeep Patel, Owners Paresh Patel 2,600 * 808 Massachusetts Ave. Foodmaster Super Markets Inc., John A. DeJesus, President Edward DeSimone 20,000 * 1398 Massachusetts Ave. EPW, LLC, Peter Weissman and Bach Weissman, Managing Partners Matt Guessetto 3,300 Mystic Wine Shoppe 901 Massachusetts Ave. Mystic Wine Shoppe, LLC, Eric Faiola, Owner/President Michael Woodward 2,500 2 Park Ave. Radhe, Inc., Nilesh K. Patel, President Nilesh K. Patel 1,600*Foodmaster Super Markets and The Meat House are only planning to sell beer and wine with the all-alcohol license.
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