The Greatest Minds initiative held a community event to celebration and discuss next steps for the expansion to Boston’s liquor license distribution. The city of Boston will be issuing 225 new liquor licenses. Unlike most existing licenses, this new set of licenses will be issued directly by the City’s Licensing Board, making the path for local businesses to serve their customers much more attainable. This new initiative takes gaining a license away from the secondary market of purchasing from a previous business owner at cost as high as $600K.
City Councilor Brian Worrell, who authored the home-rule petition to gain more liquor licenses in 2023, was able to get the law passed along with the assistance of elected officials Christopher Worrell and Liz Miranda.
The law creates three categories of licenses, designed to serve different types of applicants in 13 zip codes: Neighborhood Non-Transferable Licenses (198 total); Community Space (Outdoor, Theater and Nonprofit) Non-Transferable Licenses (15 total); and Citywide Transferable Licenses (12 total). The licenses would be distributed over 3 years at five per year, per ZIP code.
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During this community event Liz Miranda encouraged everyone to collaborate stating “if you are not ready we can help you to get ready. If you have one of the pieces of the puzzle we might know of the other pieces. If we put people together in teams, we can see a Blue Hill Ave. that can have double the number of licenses in the next few years and people can come to the area to bar hop or food hop like in other parts of the city ”
To be considered in the first round of new awards, completed applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, December 6, 2024 to the got Licensing Board.
