SAUGUS – The liquor license left over from Spin Nightclub could be back in play soon.
Attorney George Gregson told Selectmen Tuesday that he has filed an application to transfer the license and a hearing was scheduled for Jan. 6.
Gregson was required to update the board following a June show cause hearing at which Selectmen sought to seize the license that had been unused for more than a year.
Spin Nightclub once sat at the site of L.A. Fitness on Route 99, next to Lowes Home Improvement. Since there had been no move to use the license, Selectmen aimed to reclaim it.
At the time, Gregson had told the board that the license was in the process of being sold and the new owner was shopping around for a function hall. Tuesday, Gregson said he believes the owner found his function hall.
The former site of Atlantic Lobster on Route 107 is the target site for what Gregson said would be a Spinelli’s-type function hall. Spinelli’s is a successful function hall located on Route 1 south in Lynnfield.
While Selectman Michael Kelleher attempted to table the issue until the January hearing, his colleague Stephen Horlick pressed Gregson for details.
Gregson said the two-story building, owned by Pam Avedisian, is surprisingly larger than it looks and also comes with water and sewer. He said it was licensed to serve food as well.
Parking could be an issue, but Gregson said engineers are attempting to work that out. Route 107, which cuts through the marsh, is a quiet stretch of road with Refuse Energy Systems Corp. and the contractor Testa Corp. as the only two businesses on the Saugus end.
“It’s a little different than you’d expect,” Gregson said. “It’s out there with just RESCO and Testas.”
Horlick said his only concern was that the deal to open the function hall would fall through, leaving the liquor license in limbo once again.
“Then you could make the motion, the decision to go after (the license),” Gregson said.