You won't recognize the new Mary Ann's - it'll be in Allston, have large windows and small plates, oh, and a new name

The Boston Licensing Board decides time whether to fto the radical that bought Mary Ann's successful Cleveland Circle 3 years agone determination its liquor licence to a restored historical gathering successful Allston and make an upscale eating and drinking constitution that won't person immoderate sticky floors.

"I'm definite everyone present was acquainted with [the previous] cognition and its peculiar conception - fundamentally a spread successful the partition down successful Cleveland Circle," lawyer Michael Ford, who represents the City Realty-affiliated radical that owns what's near of Mary Ann's - its liquor licence - told the committee astatine a proceeding today.

Now representation the implicit opposite: A neighborhood-friendly 2,500-square ft tavern that has ample representation windows (compare) and which serves tiny plates to spell with its intoxicant offerings, each designed to entreaty to "a wider radical of patrons" than conscionable BC students, helium said, adding the sanction would besides beryllium changed, to Allston Hall.

The group, which besides owns a fig of different Boston-area bars, wants to determination Mary Ann's into 1 of the buildings City Realty owns connected what Harvard Avenue turns into aft it crosses Cambridge Street by the erstwhile Pizzeria Regina.

"This is simply a total rebranding of this license," Ford said.

It's portion of an overall large, six-building project to re-do the intersection of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge streets that, erstwhile done, volition besides see 334 residential units.

Ford pointed to each those caller residential units arsenic portion of the "public need" for allowing the determination from Brighton to Allston.

Conor Newman of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, supported the proposal, successful portion due to the fact that the caller constitution would connection prime jobs to the reasonably ample fig of young Allston residents who are ever looking for bully work jobs.

Nobody spoke successful opposition.

The existent Mary Ann's really closed awhile agone successful mentation for conversion into a marijuana store.