Just How Did The Coast Inn Get That License
By Ben Meisner
Thursday, November 18, 2010 08:36 AM
There are some questions dealing with the granting of a liquor retail sales license to the Coast Hotel that remained unchanged in spite of the matter being discussed and approved by city council.
The license for the new beer and wine store appears to contravene the Liquor Board's rule that there must be a 1 kilometre distance between such outlets.
There already exists a cold beer and wine store in the Redwood Square which is about one half a kilometres away from the Coast Hotel's site that has been approved.
There then is the matter of how the liquor license, which was operating at JJ’s pub, got moved to the Coast Hotel, and the time frame.
The cold beer and wine store owned by the Coast which was operating out of JJ’s served notice back in January that they were leaving that location, that is not what appears to have been transmitted to city hall.
There also is the matter of a liquor license which was floating around without any address attached to it, which, according to the licensing branch is a contravention of the act and the license is terminated as it has in other cases in this city.
In many other areas of the province hotels owned by the Coast have had Liquor Depot operate the facility, there is nothing preventing the company from doing that in this city which then raises another interesting point.
Would Liquor Depot confine their sales to just, "specialty" items that patrons in the hotel would want or will they stock their shelves with products that move quickly? The answer to that question is obvious. Suggesting that the facility will offer $200 bottles of scotch is also a bit of a stretch, the market will dictate what will be stocked on the shelves or the operation will be short lived.
There remain too many questions in regards to the granting of the license that a proper explanation is in order.
I’m Meisner and that’s one man's opinion.
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Posted by: Jim13135 on November 18 2010 4:57 PM