Monday, September 24, 2012
Doylestown Borough Council formally denied a request to transfer a liquor license into town for a private club that would replace the Moose.
The moment came - and went. And with it went the chance for a new club to replace the Moose Lodge on East State Street. Doylestown Borough Council voted on Aug. 20 to deny a request to transfer a new liquor license from Bristol Borough to Doylestown. Matthew Bender wanted to use the new license to open a bar and restaurant in the Moose Lodge building at 127 E. State St. Bender is the son in law of the building's owners, Bob and Mary Ellen Walton. The bar and restaurant would be for the exclusive use of a new private club, The Standard Club, which would replace the Moose Lodge as lease holder of the building. After council verbally denied the transfer request, Doylestown attorney Bill Bolla petitioned borough council to reconsider the …
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Doylestown attorney Bill Bolla wants borough council to reconsider its denial of a liquor license transfer for the Standard Club.
A Doylestown attorney has asked borough council to reconsider its recent denial of a new liquor license for a club to replace the Moose Lodge. Bill Bolla has petitioned Doylestown Borough Council, asking it to reconsider a request to transfer a liquor license from Bristol Borough to Doylestown. Matthew Bender applied for the license transfer. He planned to use it to open a bar and restaurant in the Moose Lodge building at 127 E. State St. Bender is the son in law of the building's owners, Bob and Mary Ellen Walton. A hearing on Aug. 20 on the license transfer packed borough council chambers with people supporting Bender's application and neighbors of the Moose lodge opposed to it. The bar and restaurant would not be open to the general …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Doylestown Borough Council shot down a request to transfer a liquor license from Bristol to Doylestown.
After a lengthy hearing that gave new meaning to the phrase "standing room only," Doylestown council denied an application to transfer a liquor license into town. The nine council members voted unanimously Monday evening to deny the request from Matthew Bender to transfer a "club" liquor license from Sons of Italy in America on Wood Street in Bristol Borough. Bender wanted to transfer the license to 127 E. State St., the current home of the Moose Lodge. Working with the building's owner and Moose member Robert Walton, Bender proposed to create a new private club called the Standard Club. If the transfer had been approved, the existing lease with the Moose Lodge would end, Walton said, and the Standard Club would take over rental of the …
Jennie
1:28 pm on Monday, November 26, 2012
I'm sorry, just so confused. Why can't they simply buy The Moose's liquor license? more ›