File #: 24-0901    Version: 1
Type: Report Status: Referred
File created: 7/30/2024 In control: Liquor Commission
On agenda: 8/8/2024 Final action:
Title: Consider AJ's Liquorland variance request to purchase Solo Liquor located at 1474 East Chicago Avenue.
Attachments: 1. AJ's Liquorland Concept Application, 2. AJ's Variance Request, 3. AJ's Liquorland Variance Receipt

LIQUOR COMMISSION AGENDA ITEM

 

ACTION REQUESTED:
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Consider AJ’s Liquorland variance request to purchase Solo Liquor located at 1474 East Chicago Avenue.

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DEPARTMENT:                     City Clerk’s Office

 

SUBMITTED BY:                     Shebnem Ozkaptan, Budget and Administration Manager

 

BACKGROUND:

Solo Liquors is a package store located at 1474 East Chicago Avenue.

 

Class D - Package Store licenses are generally located in large shopping centers unless they are grandfathered in as having been established prior to regulations that contain square footage limitations.

 

Solo Liquors has a Class D - Package Store license that requires that it be in a shopping center containing at least 60,000 square feet.  Because it was grandfathered in, Solo Liquors is currently in a shopping center of less than 60,000 square feet.

 

The City was contacted by Aadi Patel, owner of Shree Balchandra 2 LLC, d/b/a AJ’s Liquorland, 2150, A3 West Galena Blvd Aurora, IL 60506 who is seeking to acquire and purchase Solo Liquors. 

 

A $400 variance fee for processing the variance has been submitted along with a written request for the variance.