Mary Ann's could be shedding its BC crowd for Suffolk and Emerson students

Mary Ann's, for decades the sticky-floored haven for thirsty BC students, is seeking support to determination to Franklin Street downtown arsenic its Cleveland Circle determination is turned into a marijuana mart.

At a Boston Licensing Board proceeding connected Wednesday, the existent bar's City Realty-affiliated owners - who person been connected a teardrop buying up Boston-area dives implicit the past fewer years - volition question support to up and determination Mary Ann's to 4-8 Franklin St. successful Downtown Crossing.

That's astir apt excessively overmuch of an inconvenience connected the plodding B Line for BC students, but conscionable a abbreviated locomotion for of-age students astatine Suffolk and Emerson, unless, of course, the owners program to upscale the associated and entreaty to an older downtown crowd.

The licensing board's hearings commencement astatine 10 a.m.