Good afternoon, and welcome to Pittsburgh City Council's Cable Cast public hearing for Tuesday, October twenty seventh, twenty twenty-six, relative to the bill twenty twenty six zero nine one seven.

Will the clerk please read the title of the bill?

Bill nine seventeen resolution requesting the approval of an intermunicipal transfer of a liquor license.

Thank you.

Right?

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Um so our first order of business uh will be a brief introduction by the legislation.

Uh we are you the representative from the liquor control board?

That is correct, Mr.

President.

Yes.

Okay.

Um

not from the liquor, but from the applicant, the restaurant applicant.

From the applicant, yes.

Okay.

All right.

Well, um, you could just state your name for the record, and maybe just get a brief overview of what we're looking at here.

Yes.

Thank you.

Um, I'm an attorney at Tucker Arnsburg, and I represent the applicant for the intermunicipal liquor license transfer, which is the Ada Gelato LLC.

Um, plans to operate under the name Dopo.

Um they plan to have a an Italian cafe with about a little over thirty seats at twenty-five fifty Smallman Street in the strip district.

The property is uh owned by Ewlett Properties.

That's the property owner and also the landowner.

Um the reason why we filed this application is city council is because the liquor control um board or the liquor code, Pennsylvania's liquor code places a a um a quota on the number of licenses that can exist within a certain county.

And more specifically, if the number of licenses, restaurant licenses exceeds one for 3,000 residents in the municipality, then applicants, new applications for licenses from another municipality need to be presented to city council.

So that's why we filed this application.

Currently, right now, based on the population of the city of Pittsburgh, by right, there can be a hundred, a little over a hundred retail um restaurant liquor licenses based on the current population.

This hoping to be another one of them, and that's why we are before City Council asking for approval of a resolution that will allow this restaurant liquor license to move from the borough of Green Tree to the City of Pittsburgh, more specifically the strip district.

So a little bit on the the concept, I introduced the restaurant earlier, but Ada Gelato LC has two members.

They are the owners and operators of Dionnoia's restaurant, which is right down the street, the Italian restaurant, very well-known uh restaurant in the strip district.

They've been operating that restaurant successfully for several years.

They've received numerous awards, they're reputable and responsible restaurant operators and owners, and this is an opportunity for them.

They're not planning to do a second Dianoias, right?

There can only be one Dianoyas.

But the idea is to have an Italian cafe during the day that they'll serve coffee and sandwiches to go, and in the evening, this cafe would be more of a cocktail um lounge.

Um that's that's the concept and plan.

Um I don't know if there's any questions for for me, uh Mr.

Wilson, Councilman Wilson, or anybody on council.

Okay, thanks.

So how how many licenses are there

in

the city of Pittsburgh?

Do you know that number?

I

right

off the top of my head, the exact number I don't, but I believe it's about 500.

500.

I don't know the exact number, but yeah, there's about

so is the rule that with any.

Since it is over that number, that's what that's what triggers.

Yeah.

That's what triggers the need to come before city council.

Now, if we were purchasing one of the one of those 500 licenses that are currently in the city of Pittsburgh,

there wouldn't be a

there would not be a need to come before City Council.

But we're bringing in another license from outside of the city limits for the city of Pittsburgh.

You said the the LLC is out of gelato, but the name on the on the actual establishment will be Dopo.

Dopo.