An message from House of Delegates representative Jennifer McClellan seeks your input on the proposal to privatize ABC sales in Virginia: On September 8th, Governor McDonnell’s ABC Privatization Plan was presented to a subcommittee of the Government Reform & Restructuring Commission. [...] the number of stores selling liquor would likely triple (from the current 332 [...]
The hearing for the Mosby Express Mart’s VA ABC license application is Tuesday, August 3 at 1PM at the Hermitage Road ABC offices. (VA ABC docket [.doc]).
The docket for the August 3rd ABC license hearing (PDF) includes a challenge to the application for the Mosby Express Market & Deli at 715 Mosby Street for an ABC off license. (previously)
The new law authorizes representatives of distilled spirits and wine companies to conduct tastings on an ABC store’s premises, beginning July 1. No word on any announced events for the Venable Street location.
A front-page story in the February 11-13 issue of the Richmond Free Press, Bottle vs. the Bible, describes tension and conflict between Venable Street’s Shiloh Baptist Church and the ABC store across the street: “We’ve found drunks sleeping on our porch; there’s those black plastic bags around our property, and vagrancy,” said Clyde Wilson, chairman [...]
Richmond BizSense has info on a proposal to privatize ABC sales in Virginia: Senate Bill 443 would force the Virginia Department of Alcohol Beverage Control to close its retail operations. The ABC would auction off “package store” licenses to vendors that wish to sell liquor and other alcoholic beverages for consumption off premises.
The ABC store at 25th and Venable Streets, rumored to be the most profitable in the state, this year became the only ABC store in the state that does not sell minis (singles, airplane bottles) due to community pressure. Working with Delegate Jennifer McClellan and the ABC Board, the Union Hill Civic Association worked to [...]
It is not in your best interest to catch the campus connector from the Monroe Campus to the MCV Campus and then walk across the MLK Bridge and up Venable Street to the ABC store at 8:30PM. If I see you again, next time I’ll rob your dumbass myself.
The City of Richmond was notified by the Virginia Department of ABC, Bureau of Law Enforcement of an application for a beer and wine on premise license at Jumpin J’s Java.
In the ongoing Booze Battle on Venable, Ann keeps the fight alive.
In the ongoing saga of the fight over the ABC license of the corner store at 2300 Venable Street (see 1,000,000 bottle bags), there was an appeal hearing on the original ruling.
The appeal hearing for the ABC license for the convenience store at 2300 Venable Street has been set for April 4th at 3:30 pm. The appeal will be before the 3 newly appointed ABC board. This hearing differs from the 1/26 hearing which was before a single hearing officer.
As a follow-up to Fight This Corner Store and 1,000,000 bottle bags: the store in question has been offered a license despite the neighborhood protest.
Union Hill and Fairmount residents feeling the adverse impact of alcohol-related crimes will have the opportunity to make a difference. The hearing referenced in the November’s 1,000,000 bottle bags has been scheduled for 1pm on Thursday, January 26, 2006, at the ABC Headquarters on Hermitage Rd.
We used to joke that the black plastic bag, emptied of its big bottle of beer and gently floating on the breeze, was the neighborhood flower. Corner stores selling liquor is a constant issue in certain areas, with a fight occurring right now over the store at 2300 Venable Street.
