Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing and grant an Entertainment Permit with conditions on the application of Shannon’s On Pine, Inc., dba Shannon’s On Pine, 201 Pine Avenue, for Entertainment With Dancing. (District 2)
Councilmember Mongo. Councilmember Andrews wishing Karis thank you. A hearing to please. Heritage an item is a report from financial management recommendation to receive supporting documentation to the record, conclude the hearing and grant an entertainment permit where the conditions on the applications of Shannons on Pine to one Pine Avenue for entertainment with dancing district to end it is required. Thank you. And we will begin by. This does require. A note so you want to go ahead and begin with the oath because. Anyone wishing to speak on this item, please stand up and raise your hand. Now. You do solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the cause now pending before this body shall be truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Thank you, Mr. America. Thank you, Vice Mayor. The staff report will be given by Brett Yuccas, our business license officer. Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the city council to me have a for you an application for entertainment with dancing for Shannon's on pine ink doing business as Shannon's on pine located at 201 Pine Avenue, operating as a restaurant with alcohol in Council District two to provide some background information, this business owner has operated a restaurant with alcohol at 209 Pine Avenue, Suite A since 2006. They recently recently expanded their operation to include the corner space adjacent to their current business and modified the address for the entire site to be 201 Pine Avenue, the first floor of the business still undergoing renovations. However, the second floor has been completed and the business owner would like to start up, would like to start to offer. Entertainment staff has added a condition to the entertainment permit that allows entertainment on the second floor until all of the renovations have been approved, at which point the entertainment permit will be applicable to the entire site of 201 Pine Avenue. This will allow council to take action tonight for the entire site, while ensuring that entertainment in areas under renovation are only permitted once the work has been completed. All of the necessary departments have reviewed the application and have provided the recommended conditions as contained in the hearing packet, as well as the police department stand ready to answer any questions Council may have. And that will conclude staff's report. Thank you. And we are going to go to public comment at this moment. Is there any public comment on the hearing? Seeing no public comment. We're going to close public comment, take it back behind the wheel. Council Member Pearce. Yes, I want to thank staff for all of their hard work on this and we have our business owner here today. You didn't want to make any comments again. Know, I was a little slow getting, I guess. Okay. Well, we will reopen this if you want to come down before we give our comments. I didn't notice. Until sometimes. I got out. Till 1130 that you had an opportunity. To go. I just wanted to assure the council and the community that I'm not a fly by night operator that's come in here. Our family lives here. I came to downtown Long Beach about ten years ago. Long, downtown Long Beach has been very good for me. Even though we came at the beginning of the recession, we we doubled our size. We had a 13 foot wide bar at the time behind a stairwell, 20 feet off the sidewalk. We didn't have a sign for a year and a half on the front of the building. But in the next three. Years, we doubled our space, continued to grow. And then in 2015. We managed to purchase the property from the corner all the way down to Johnny Rockets became a huge responsibility. My my wife, my son and daughter work in the business with me and some great employees. We knew right away that we wanted to restore the building. So back to the 1930 original look. So we added the 27 clear story windows that were taken out before we put the new we put the display windows back and that were there before we started putting up the plaques or medallions that go between the window sets. We had those fired in and colored and so on. So we're doing an awful lot to try to restore the way the building looks. I took all those windows at the top of the building out, had them rebuilt and replaced. So we have a lot more work to do, but we are putting the work into into the building. I think when we get finished here, you'll all be very proud of it. It's in a very important. Location downtown, being right on Broadway and. Pine and I know it's important to the city is as it is to us, the the upstairs location that we're wanting to open now with with our entertainment permit was once Berlin West, which is nationally famous jazz club and it's 6000 square feet. It's a multipurpose venue. So we will we will be doing corporate meetings as well as weddings and wedding receptions. And we do sports up there, which is something maybe new and Long Beach. My son is really in charge of doing that and it's been coming along fine. So I guess that's the main thing. I just want to tell you that we're here to stay and we want to be an asset to the community. Any questions? Great. Thank you very much. And I'm going to turn this over now to any other public comment for the hearing. Just. Okay. And just making sure this is this has to be on Shannon's on the entertainment permit. Okay. We can do public, general public comment after. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Councilman Pearce. Yes. I want to again applaud staff for working on this, but I really want to thank you for having the vision. I had the opportunity to take a tour of the entire establishment. And I think when we think about downtown and revitalizing downtown, it's it's celebrating our history and not removing that while also being new and innovative . And so I can't wait to be one of the first events there. And seeing you guys be responsible business owners, I think we are a really good place in downtown to have you investing as much as you have. And so I'm really looking forward to your success. So I encourage my colleagues, please, to support me in this vote. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Gonzalez? Yeah, Ron. Just want to say thanks so much for your investment in downtown as well. I know this was a long road for you, but congratulations in everything you've done. That from Durango. Thank you, Mayor. I think other than maybe Thandie and maybe Superman, I remember Berlin West. I used to go there. Really looking forward to the reactivating of that area into something that was very nice back in the day and. And looking forward to being there. Thank you. Great. Ron, you've got a good spot already. So we're looking forward to that expansion and we're very proud of you and the whole team. You have a great team over there and you know that. I always tell you that. So a members. Bruce Gordon cash for votes. Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. We're going to hear item 27.