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2026-11-05 - Safety Services and Licenses Committee

Summary

Built from the posted agenda; the committee's decisions are not stated in it. Rescheduled from November 2 to November 5. Business licenses are approved subject to receipt of documentation and fees by the City Clerk.

  • Public hearing: Class BV full liquor license ownership transfer for 42 Lounge, 355 Dyer Ave, with a new victualing license for the same address.
  • Liquor renewals for 12/1/26 to 12/1/27: 5 Class A, 19 Class BV (including Lang's Bowlarama, 225 Niantic Ave, the subject of Lang's Bowlarama Show Cause; here it appears only as a renewal), 1 Class BVL (Shake Shack), 1 Class BT (Johnson & Wales University, Harbor View), 3 Class D social clubs and 1 Class J (Rhodes on the Pawtuxet).
  • 5 additional-hours victualing renewals (including three 24-hour convenience stores) and 70 victualing renewals.
  • Other renewals: 2 indoor entertainment, 6 indoor/outdoor entertainment, 1 firearms dealer and 1 mobile food establishment (information only); a temporary structure license; monthly event schedules for Rhodes on the Pawtuxet, Park Theatre and Cranston Stadium; no communications.
  • Carried over: Class BV renewals for Papa Razzi, Kochi Sushi & Steakhouse and Lunch Box Cafe, and the Class BV transfer from Mulligans Golf + Entertainment to Blue Jeans Cranston, LLC (Golf Ranch, 1000 New London Ave). See New Liquor Licenses Class BV and BVL for the other recent BV licensing.
  • New licenses: 4 victualing (42 Lounge, Golden Oven Group, Taconeando 2, Napolitano's Brooklyn Pizza), 1 mobile food establishment, 1 hawker/peddler and 1 auto body (Crash Champions, 47 Stamp Farm Rd). One private detective license is also listed.
  • No show-cause matters. Nine sets of earlier minutes (June 1 through October 13) are up for approval as a block.

Agenda

  1. Call to order; roll call
  2. Approval of minutes: June 1, June 11 (Special), June 16 (Special), July 9, August 3, September 14, September 22 (Special), October 5, October 13 (Special)
  3. Public comment (docketed matters only)
  4. Public hearings: A. Class BV transfer (ownership), 42 Lounge, 355 Dyer Ave; B. additional-hours victualing renewals (5); C. Class A renewals (5); D. Class BV renewals (19); E. Class BVL renewal (Shake Shack); F. Class BT renewal (Harbor View); G. Class D social club licenses (3); H. Class J renewal (Rhodes on the Pawtuxet); I. private detective license (1)
  5. Show cause: none
  6. Carried over: A. Class BV renewals (Papa Razzi, Kochi Sushi & Steakhouse, Lunch Box Cafe); B. Class BV transfer, Mulligans Golf + Entertainment to Blue Jeans Cranston, LLC (Golf Ranch)
  7. New matters: A. victualing, new (4); B. mobile food establishment, new (1); C. hawker/peddler, new (1); D. auto body, new (Crash Champions)
  8. License renewals: A. victualing (70); B. indoor entertainment (2); C. indoor/outdoor entertainment (6); D. firearms dealer (1); E. mobile food establishment (information only); F. temporary structure license
  9. Monthly schedules: Rhodes on the Pawtuxet; Park Theatre; Cranston Stadium
  10. Communications: none (informational only)
  11. Adjournment

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