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Alex Matov at April 2022 City of Boston Licensing Board suspension hearing
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One of the two long as well as variously favored developers based in Allston but active in Quincy — developers who have been long and often enjoyed curious sweet deals from the City of Quincy in the wake of these out of town developers and their peeps donating serious money to Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s campaign fund as well as on occasion were found to have done so illegally looks — is looking to be end up eighty-sixed by the City of Boston’s Licensing Board given a board violation hearing last week.
Specifically, Boston Licensing Board is looking to finally be revoking the liquor license held by Alex Matov, one of partners of the favored real estate development company LBC Boston per the license’s registration as the Russian Benevolent Society, an entity which originally was ostensibly said to be but an ethnic social club.
Initially, the social club featured but a Russian restaurant for those hankering to enjoy an upscale dining experience featuring dishes from the Old County in a venue within LBC Boston’s company headquarters compound in Allston and subsequently added an open to the public nightclub into the mix via a piggybacking on the Russian Benevolent Society’s liquor license.
A Garage Boston Christmas party cage dancer?
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Both the restaurant and the nightclub, Garage Boston, subsequently as well as frequently were sanctioned for all manner of liquor violations and other problems with the nightclub in particular long been viewed as a public nuisance by both those living nearby as well as the City of Boston.
The nuisances include at least three incidents of gun violence.
The first known shooting occurred in 2016.
A subsequent double shooting in November of 2021 is felt to have been triggered by a fight inside the club.
Locked down
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The 2021 incident resulted in an extended suspension of the Russian Benevolent Society’s liquor license and so closing down both the restaurant as well as the nightclub.
The third (known, ed.) incident occurred on April 20, 2022 when gunfire erupted just outside the nightclub place mere hours after City of Boston Licensing Board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce had allowed the nightclub to re-open for the first time since it was ordered shutdown following the November 2021 double shooting.
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Chairwoman Joyce was particularly livid after the April 2022 shooting incident as nightclub operator Matov had apparently failed to sent up mandatory security and a 24/7 point of contact that had been required by the board to reopen the club.
At this point after multiple City of Boston Licensing Board hearings and such, Matov, the owner of the nightclub, has asked that the Licensing Board not revoke the Benevolent Society’s liquor license as he said that he is trying to find an acceptable as well as independent party to buy and then run the nightclub.
So what, apparently, for the fact that it would appear that the putative deadline for him to endeavor to so see the nightclub’s liquor license suspension lifted via a sale and the nightclub might then reopen has long past.
Everyone has a secret comrade, is subject to kompromat — whatever …
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As liquor licenses in Boston are currently worth upwards of $600,000 on the open market, terminating the liquor license poses a further financial hit to Matov on top of losses incurred while the restaurant and nightclub have been closed for roughly two years.
Closed nightclub owner Matov also noted to the Licensing Board that he has been having problems lining up financing to redevelop LBC’s renovated old brick warehouse sort of building site where the nightclub once operated and LBC Boston its corporate offices, plans at least two years in the works at this point and so relocated the nightclub in new space within the proposed redevelopment project.
City on the Move facing some constipation?
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At this point, the over two years long delay in LBC Boston’s Allston’s redevelopment plans is a year less than the three years long delay on LBC’s also yet to happen comparably-sized in total proposed two apartment building projects in Quincy Center as well as near its only redevelopment project in Quincy to date.
No comment was offered to the Licensing Board, however, as to how any such prospective tenants for the proposed redevelopment in Allston might feel about living above a nightclub with a checkered to say the least history.
Then again, one could argue that no comment was needed.
Piled higher and deeper
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Other comments that were made were not well-received, if not also found laughable, by the Licensing Board as well as were clearly viewed as the latest round of bovine byproduct shoveled the board’s way.
Further note that the comments offered up are documented by Quincy Quarry’s media brethren Universal Hub and so independently confirming what some may find to be fanciful Quarry story.
Reality, the whole of things is further proof that the truth is often stranger than fiction.
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Maybe they can lean on Koch for a few bucks after all he’s done for them
Louie,
Did you see what my BFF Tommy is paying the Russians for the lot with the I Hop? They are looking at what looks to be at least a 400% ROI plus rental income on a 9 year ownership of the property. Even I am impressed.