Up from the dead? Jacob Wirth could re-open after all, with a new owner and an old Newbury Street bar's liquor license

A antheral who was progressive successful the wide acquisition of Boston dives a fewer years backmost has filed plans with the metropolis to re-open the seemingly dead-and-buried Jacob Wirth connected Stuart Street.

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Boston Licensing Board adjacent week holds a proceeding connected a connection by Julius Sokol of East Boston to re-open the venerable Germanish brew and soft barroom connected Stuart Street, which seems to awesome that plans to person the water-ravaged abstraction into a marijuana shop person gone up successful smoke. The h2o came from efforts by firefighters successful 2018 to enactment retired a occurrence successful the building's precocious floors.

Technically, adjacent Wednesday's proceeding is connected a petition from the proprietor of the aged Daisy Buchanan's connected Newbury Street to merchantability its liquor licence to Sokol.

Sokol was portion of an concern radical that bought up the buildings lodging specified dives arsenic Mary Ann's connected Beacon Street successful Cleveland Circle, the Tam connected Tremont Street successful the Theater District and the Beacon Hill Pub connected Charles Street successful 2018.

The marijuana proposal, which ne'er adjacent got a proceeding earlier the Boston Cannabis Board, was made by a task affiliated with Boston Ballroom, which owns Club Royale successful the Theater District.

Sokol's connection is present the 3rd for the space. In 2019, different interest projected turning it into a sports bar.