The former Forlano's Italian Restaurant will be the site of the new HG Coal Fired Pizza in New Britain Borough. (Credit: Google Street View)
New Britain Borough Council will hold a liquor license transfer hearing next month where it will grant or deny permission for HG Coal Fired Pizza of New Britain to transfer a restaurant liquor license from Warminster Township, Bucks County.
Solicitor Michael Peters said when a liquor license transfers from one municipality to another within the same county, the governing body has the ability to consider whether or not to vote against the license coming into town.
If it is a no vote, then the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board will not allow the transfer of the license under state law.
“There is no basis to say no; you would need a significant history of complaints through the police department, and you don’t have enough liquor licenses here to have that type of thing occurring,” Peters said.
After the hearing, council has 45 days to vote on the matter.
The license would be transferred from Bucks Bagels and Alexia’s Panaderia Inc. in Warminster to HG Coal Fired Pizza, where it will be used at its new 524 E. Butler Ave. location.
Borough Manager John Wolff said the developer has permits in to start doing renovations at the former site of Forlano’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria.
“They are not tearing the building down,” he said.
