Boston Journal studies Democracy Brewing on Temple Place downtown, hopes to open a second location subsequent yr at 154 Maverick St. in East Boston – which has been house to a number of eating places in recent times and the main target of a long-running, bitter battle between the now cut up couple who purchased the previous metropolis Welfare constructing in 2011.
The worker-owned craft brewery received a metropolis grant earlier this yr to assist it outfit its new location.
The area it’ll transfer into at the moment has a “neighborhood” liquor license, however the metropolis license database has a notation: “TEMP CLOSED DO NOT ISSUE.” In March, at its newest listening to on constructing proprietor John Tyler’s newest quotation for not really utilizing the license, the Boston Licensing Board voted to carry a listening to to revoke the license in six months, or this previous September.
Nevertheless, the board has apparently not held that listening to on the license, at which the board might contemplate taking again the license and handing it out to any individual else in one of many metropolis’s 21 Most important Avenue districts, Roxbury, Dorchester or Mattapan. As a brewery, although, Democracy can apply for a separate license particularly for breweries.
Tyler and his ex-wife, Melissa, have been battling, usually in courtroom, over the restaurant area since their divorce in 2016. The licensing board has held a collection of hearings on the area, which in recent times has been closed extra usually than not.
Tyler is additionally being sued by two restaurant operators who cost he booted them out of the area earlier than they might open a brand new restaurant after he closed his in favor of a restaurant run by a one-time accomplice of theirs. In 2023, that restaurant opened – after which closed after simply three months in enterprise.
