A School Street restaurant and hookah lounge is closed Friday, August 7 under a one-day liquor license suspension and owes a $500 fine within 45 days. Benefit Street is scheduled for paving after utility work, with the city aiming to finish before school starts. The DPW traffic division has been asked to add warnings at three Rice Street stop signs. Residents can still apply for the city’s volunteer resilience task force, which has no applicants from Ward 6.
The Pawtucket City Council, sitting as the Board of License Commissioners, ordered a School Street restaurant and hookah lounge closed for one day and fined it $500 after the business held an outdoor concert in its parking lot without a permit, according to the council’s published meeting recording.
The one-day suspension of the establishment’s Class D liquor license was set for Friday, August 7. The $500 fine must be paid within 45 days. The board approved the agreement by voice vote after the license holder agreed to it.
The unpermitted outdoor event
The city’s counsel laid out the facts for the board. On July 11, police arrived at the licensed premises — Pico’s Restaurant & Lounge LLC, at 110 School Street — for a scheduled police detail and found an outdoor event already running in the parking lot, with a stage, a DJ, and patrons both inside the event area and waiting to get in…