[0:00] To order, the date is September 8, the time is 4 o'clock. With us today, we have all the women Smith, all the men bug, all the men unions, all the men civilian, myself, all of them in Franco. First item is 2 6-0-5-2-6. Approved the minutes for the public health, safety and transportation committee, Helen, August 25, 2026, some of them. We have a motion by all the women Smith, second by all the men unions. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Pass us 5-0. Madam Clerk, we have it from the public wishing to speak.

[0:29] No, we do not.

[0:30] Okay, thank you.

[0:31] Then we'll go to the agenda, 26-05-24 resolution establishing the maximum number of

[0:37] class D, downtown core on-site consumption liquor licenses, unofficially related to the

[0:42] application from New York, Aurora, LLC doing businesses, Bailey Doyle, at 28 West New York

[0:48] Street.

[0:49] Hello, sir.

[0:50] My name is Revender Singh.

[0:51] I'm the owner of it.

[0:53] My name is Prop Justine.

[0:55] PJ, you guys can call me PJ.

[0:56] We're both part of the partners.

[0:58] Thank you.

[0:58] and Jennifer's following a city clerk.

[1:01] Okay.

[1:01] This is a full ownership change of Valley Doyle.

[1:08] The purchasers are here to answer any questions

[1:11] that you have and they will explain to you

[1:16] their experience and their plans for going forward

[1:21] with the business.

[1:22] Okay, great, thank you.

[1:23] Go ahead, Jonathan.

[1:26] You can ask me anything.

[1:27] I'll go ahead and answer that.

[1:28] Oh, so you want you want us to ask questions you want to give us any I will let me let me start with the first thing

[1:34] So apparently the myth that you need to be Irish only a place is gone. So rather that right. Okay, that's good

[1:39] That was my first question. I'll I'll if that's where we're going to go

[1:42] I'll leave it to the committee if they have any questions based on the reading material

[1:48] Oh, I guess I'll ask

[1:50] Can you go over the concept or the ideas that you have for the property moving forward?

[1:55] I mean, right now, the first thing we're trying to improve the property for any business

[2:01] like you need to clean the property right now if you go there, I don't think so it's clean.

[2:05] And to be honest, I don't think so, it's well managed.

[2:08] And the reason is the owner is absent there.

[2:12] And being like from a liquor store experience, like I'm going to be present there.

[2:18] I'm going to present there all times and running it as long as like it's a nice running

[2:24] place restaurant and from there it will go forward.

[2:29] Do you plan on keeping the name and concept as is or are you going to re-name it, introduce

[2:36] a new concept, what's the idea there?

[2:38] I mean right now we're going to go with like everything as it is, same name, same concept

[2:43] but then it depends on customer's demand.

[2:46] We're going to spend like six months or something maybe a year, then we'll see how it is.

[2:51] like what needs there, like what are things that needs to be done or any different concept

[2:56] that needs to bring there that will go from there.

[2:58] Okay.

[2:59] And could you share a little bit more about each of your backgrounds?

[3:02] Yes sir.

[3:03] I have experiences of running a liquor store, not owning it, but running liquor stores for

[3:08] my uncle and I have a, I used to run a club nightclub as well, but my, it's in my name

[3:15] is interesting.

[3:16] I have been in business for one decade.

[3:18] like a short industry and a hotel industry we do have properties on the

[3:21] Chicago area and a variety mid-a-way area and then we invest in it as well we do

[3:26] have a another restaurant in Downscrew, Ashiana which is the same thing

[3:30] bank Rahal and restaurant as well so we are here as well we want to clean up the

[3:34] first thing our first priority is to clean up the building I know the

[3:38] concert has been there for years that it's where we want to clean up the

[3:42] building first and then go with a guest demand of what they are asking for

[3:46] we're looking for so we definitely want to be with the community as long as we

[3:49] there. I appreciate it. Thank you. Anybody else have any questions? A lot of

[3:54] Mr. Bill? Yes. Thank you. Chair Franco. Welcome. You've come to the right place.

[4:04] City of Aurora is happening downtown and we wish you well. I have a question that I

[4:09] recently spoke with both our city attorney doubling and Jennifer Stollings

[4:13] our city clerk with regard to the deck and the back. I'm sure you probably took a tour

[4:19] of the outside and noticed the there's a lot of things happening in a small amount

[4:24] of space in that area. You've got the tunnels that are crossing the east branch of the

[4:31] river there. You've got the not only the deck but you've got a not working fountain which

[4:38] you probably didn't even know it was a fountain underneath those boards but the city is not

[4:42] maintaining that fountain and there's not a lot of activity there without the

[4:49] casino driving the people parking in the in the typically deck and the canoe

[4:54] shoots not working currently and there needs to be some repairs that were

[4:58] currently signed to contract

[5:29] . . . . .

[5:30] building, clean it up,

[5:32] deck needs a lot of work there.

[5:33] There's no, like, you know, if you

[5:34] went there inside the building,

[5:36] it's all the bugs around the area.

[5:38] There's nothing never cleaned.

[5:39] Never even washed up, would say.

[5:41] Yeah, so we want to make sure to clean it up

[5:43] and then bring some new

[5:44] concert up there, like, you know,

[5:48] for future episodes, we want

[5:49] some lighting in there too, because

[5:50] if you see you walk out and night time,

[5:54] usually you drive out there, there's no

[5:55] of safety, just going to see if we can turn it happening over there.

[5:57] So we want to make sure we clean the building outside all around,

[6:00] put some lights in there, new cameras there.

[6:03] So we can see what's happening, you know.

[6:05] Yes.

[6:06] Plus, like our first thing will be like painting the building,

[6:10] like keep it clean.

[6:11] Because right now it's not attractive,

[6:13] even though it's the same business all along.

[6:16] But if you just drive through it,

[6:19] like you don't really know what's going on there.

[6:22] And there are a lot of spider webs and all.

[6:24] like there's it's not clean and it's not attractive right now so we'll be

[6:29] making sure we'll clean the property so it looks nicer from outside and it'll

[6:35] be attractive something like that sure back in the day when the casino is more

[6:42] busy than it had been in recent years the casino used to host their annual

[6:47] office employee party down there and they used to reserve the space with the city of

[6:52] And they would have a live band down there in music and dancing and it was a lot of fun for the employees

[6:58] We say stop doing because of all this other stuff that's now happening there. That's preventing people from feeling that it was a fun place to be

[7:06] If you haven't given any thought to maybe eventually taking that

[7:10] Deck down to kind of open things up and then have seating on the main floor and not

[7:15] above these

[7:16] You know pillars, you know with the deck

[7:20] I mean to be honest we didn't think about this yet like we didn't this was not in our plan like removing the deck

[7:27] But going forward like once we'll be there then we can observe better and then work on the building better like

[7:35] Depending on the math so to be honest

[7:37] I haven't like we haven't considered anything like taking down because we didn't think of that perspective

[7:42] We just went there looked at the building looked at the business like how is it running like

[7:47] like that. And there are a lot of things like why that business is now really booming

[7:52] or like it's failing to bring people in. So we just looked at, looked through that

[7:59] perspective, but not from like knocking off the deck or anything. We didn't go through

[8:04] over it.

[8:05] Right.

[8:05] Well, I have the City Attorney De Blaine gave me the copy of the easement that we signed

[8:10] with you, with the previous owner in 2008, that gives you the right to do this.

[8:17] I kind of voiced my concerns at the time, not knowing all this other stuff that was going to be happening.

[8:23] And so we want you to succeed, but we want the downtowns to succeed at the same time.

[8:28] And we want a lot of people coming to your establishment.

[8:31] And right now it's not being, they're not being invited to do that because of not only what's happened over the years,

[8:37] but the city should be taking more responsibility with that fountain, too.

[8:40] We should be fixing it and repairing it and getting that up and running.

[8:43] So that's on our responsibility.

[8:46] And I'm hoping that we could do that in the future.

[8:48] But I would just like to throw that out to you to consider that.

[8:51] Yes, so definitely.

[8:52] So definitely the ones we are here in the city when we took the property.

[8:55] And we definitely want to work with you guys.

[8:58] Any ideas you have that you want to do that, we will definitely open to it.

[9:02] And definitely work with the two guys, the community, yes.

[9:04] And if you're following up following along and the news that the city is taking responsibility for the the breach in the in the dam right now

[9:11] And that will be repaired. Yeah, although the canoe should itself will not be repaired any time soon. So

[9:17] So we'll see what happens with that. Yeah, well, I wish it was the best. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[9:26] Good afternoon gentlemen. How are you?

[9:29] Good. I want to talk about your history. You talked a little bit about it.

[9:39] I see here in

[9:40] the documents you had a liquor store at 4430 South Kedsie. Yes sir. Yeah and that's the intersection

[9:50] of Archer. Yes sir. Yeah. Okay. But you said you also worked in a restaurant. Did that have a

[9:58] liquor license? Yes, sir.

[10:00] Okay. Then that probably should have been on this document. Yes, but that's sir. I worked here for a couple of years, and then I came to the liquor store. So now I'm at the liquor store, but after that, once we took over this building, we'll I'll be coming to join here. Okay. What was your role in the restaurant?

[10:30] That is okay.

[10:35] Correct me if I'm wrong, clerk. Should that have been included in this?

[10:41] It says within the last ten years, so I don't know when it was, but you know, I generally

[10:46] interpret this and it's certainly subject to your interpretation as well. Owned or operated

[10:53] by the applicant, I always look for the corporation who will be who is applying for the liquor license

[11:00] if they had prior ownership of something but certainly I think you know there's

[11:05] something that lends credibility to their operational abilities it could go

[11:12] there as well. Thank you for that so yeah normally in this document you were you

[11:20] said you managed the ball yes yes so that should have been included here so we

[11:25] could see that so what was the name of the restaurant it's called chicaria isn't

[11:29] Bancroll Hall and restaurant in Chicago. Yes, sir, and downscrew down. Yes, sir.

[11:35] It's called Chicago. Chicago. And it's a shia. All together. Okay. Give me a

[11:43] crack. I used to live in down. It's going to be a practical area. It's on a 355. 355.

[11:49] And then let me get you at us.

[12:02] So 75 75 Street. Okay. As if you're going toward the golf

[12:07] Of course, down there.

[12:08] Yes, there's a cross-free over there.

[12:10] By the Hollywood cinema, cross-free.

[12:14] OK, I got you.

[12:15] I got you.

[12:20] Well, good.

[12:21] I mean, it seems a little bit like this

[12:23] is a little bit newer to you.

[12:27] Looker store, a little bit different.

[12:31] And very excited that you're coming.

[12:35] Sounds like you got a lot of passion,

[12:36] and want to do some new things.

[12:41] This is a lot of building there for someone new.

[12:47] Are you keeping the same cook staff?

[12:50] You bringing in your new cook staff?

[12:52] So we're keeping all that employees safe.

[12:54] Okay.

[12:55] And then we definitely want to expand ever

[12:57] to see how everything goes first,

[12:59] operation wise, and then we definitely want to hire more employees.

[13:03] Okay, excellent.

[13:04] And my only other question, days open.

[13:08] Right now, Valley Doyle has closed Monday Tuesday, has been a kind of a question marking a lot of people's minds.

[13:19] They go there, even go there sometimes after our meetings on Tuesdays and the doors are locked.

[13:25] What is your plan for today?

[13:27] right right now it's gonna be same closed on Monday and Tuesday opening the

[13:32] first opening day of the week will be Wednesday okay the last day will be

[13:35] Sunday okay so right now it's gonna be same but we'll see like how the

[13:40] clients are coming so that's how we'll manage the hours and all later but first

[13:45] we need to observe the place and find him all

[13:51] right well we look forward to all right

[13:53] Do you plan on having a re-granned opening, soft opening first, and then the next year

[14:02] we'll have a grand opening.

[14:04] Okay.

[14:05] Excellent.

[14:06] We look forward to it.

[14:07] Thank you.

[14:08] Thank you, Grant.

[14:09] So, did you?

[14:11] Okay.

[14:12] Hold on a second.

[14:13] Yes.

[14:13] So, welcome.

[14:15] I just wanted to share with you guys that I do, I like your ideas, your ideas are awesome.

[14:20] I love your energy, your passion.

[14:22] and I'm really happy to hear you talk about cleaning that area because it needs

[14:27] it truly needs it it's a great area it's a great space but it's not very

[14:33] welcoming and you know and even walking down you know from coming down the

[14:38] path to go up the stairs you know it feels a little I want to I don't want to say

[14:45] unsafe but it's just a little dark it's a little dingy and you know so I think if

[14:51] you guys can clean that up.

[14:52] I think it'll be farmer welcoming to all of us

[14:55] and that will go a long way for your business as well

[14:57] because if you're in the other side of the city, Sam.

[15:00] We're going to walk over there. Yeah, I don't really like to walk in that area. That would be great if you guys could light it and get it all cleaned up. And I think that would be a really good thing for you. So welcome, welcome to Aurora. Best of luck to you. Please let us know what we can do to assist you and your success. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So I have a question. There is another belly door, at least one other one. It's in Westman, I believe. Yeah. It's because there's another one there. Is that a challenge for you to do certain things?

[15:29] is that because of the trademark or whatever that would be,

[15:33] this is, well, Bally Dole has got to do this

[15:34] because there's another one there.

[15:36] How does that work?

[15:37] Is there a problem?

[15:38] We're just going to add the last at the end of the Bally Dole.

[15:42] We're going to add Bally Dole Aurora.

[15:44] So it's going to be, I mean, it's not going

[15:46] to be a separate concept, but people will know

[15:50] like it's in its separate city.

[15:52] So I mean, that's how we're trying

[15:54] to separate both the business.

[15:56] Yeah, but what I'm getting there is because Bally Dole has

[15:59] a name. Are you because they do something, you're compelled to do something because the

[16:03] name or are you kind of independent, you can kind of do what you want, even though there's

[16:06] the same name in two different places.

[16:09] Yes and no, we are independent. We can do anything we want to do.

[16:12] Okay.

[16:12] Very, very doyled in Downers Grove is the size of a nickel. No, not even a nickel. Die. It's

[16:17] tiny.

[16:18] I mean, they don't have the bank at all.

[16:20] We have the bank at all and our bank at all is called loft 28. So that's a little more

[16:27] extra point for us. Right. Like we have a little edge over the Donner's Grove

[16:32] Balladola, because Donner's Grove Balladola is just based on like not even a

[16:38] sports bar, but just a party place on the Friday night and Saturday night. But

[16:42] we have like full working kitchen, restaurant, dining place. So I see a lot of

[16:48] potential in this place. But to be honest I can actually tell you everything like

[16:54] what we're gonna do after observing the place. Right now we just have like

[16:57] concepts in mind, but our guarantee will be like after looking at observing the place.

[17:03] Right. I guess I was getting at your hands tied with certain things, because belly

[17:07] oil franchise says this is the way things go for whatever. I apparently they don't

[17:12] based on what you're saying. No, sir. There's no hands tied. No, no. Okay. We're going to be

[17:16] totally separate from them. Okay. Jennifer. I would because when I think of belly oil, I think

[17:23] of the first floor. We haven't talked, we haven't discussed the lot,

[17:29] lot 28 and it's always been because I've only been to a couple of events there. I don't have

[17:34] a lot of familiarity with what they do up there. I've heard that there are nights when it's like

[17:40] a dance club and I've heard that there's like private parties and that type of thing. I've seen

[17:46] some beautiful things online. Can you explain maybe what you'll be doing there?

[17:50] So remember it's going to be the same thing, there's no night party or anything like that but mostly parties,

[17:58] receptions, birthday parties, you know, get together, that's all, no Beijing or anything like that.

[18:04] So no, like open to the public dance.

[18:08] No, nothing like that.

[18:11] Public dance is like, you know, reception parties.

[18:14] Yeah, yeah.

[18:15] But not I can go there on Saturday night and I'm going to find a room for all the people dancing to a DJ so I would like to add one thing and they're like our basic idea there are four different DJs on Friday night and Saturday which are on the lower level right but like if there's no booking right then you can add in another DJ upstairs like but are basically that's my our idea is bringing different cultures together in a way

[18:45] under a single roof, like which I don't see anywhere in Chicago, like there are 40

[18:51] years down and if we add another one upstairs, if we don't have any booking, like let's say

[18:56] Latin night, like a country music or Indian music, which I see there's this this

[19:06] particular place doesn't have any engagement with Indian people, which I don't I

[19:11] see I feel a strange little bit because there are a lot of Indians around here, so as

[19:15] a business man, I feel like it's a great idea if I bring different cultures under a single

[19:20] roof. I see is a hit because I don't see anywhere in Chicago like there are so many different

[19:26] cultures under a single roof. So I mean, we might have a party there. On the days we don't

[19:33] have any bookings or for any vettings or anything else. So we're probably going to have a, we're

[19:39] probably going to add another DJ up there with a different, like, music, like, different

[19:44] different than other music running under the, I mean, in balladol. So we might do that.

[19:52] Okay. So, that leads me to another question. Since we've gone there. Over the past, we've

[19:58] had entities.

[20:07] What are we looking at for security at your place? I mean, right now, for the lower level, whatever they're doing, we'll keep it same. But if there's a party on the upstairs, then we'll add more security in there. But the entrance will be same. We're not going to add like two different entrants. We're going to have the same entrance, the main entrance. Because we're going to have the same entrance, the main entrance.

[20:29] every ID that's going to be checked there and from there we have even they can use the lift or the stairs

[20:37] whatever but they have to go through from inside the building we're not going to like open two different

[20:43] entrances. Well my point is is that when you when you're above or below historically around here we've

[20:50] had some problems in the past where after the fact we said we should have more security so when those

[20:55] parties go along you have a especially dance club late at night they tend to get a little bit out of

[20:59] So I just want to make sure that there's a set of eyes watching and everybody knows what's going on

[21:04] So it's not like oh, I wish we would have done this forget about the problem type of stuff. I don't know right now

[21:09] Like exactly how they do it, but I think they have like five to six securities, right?

[21:14] Okay, right now on Fridays and Saturdays

[21:16] But if we have a party upstairs, then we're gonna increase by maybe four more security like tools probably

[21:24] always going to be staying there, watching everybody there, but they have like

[21:30] floaters who like goes like at the outside patio or inside downstairs, inside

[21:36] upstairs, they check everything and they're all going to have a radio so if

[21:40] there's any problem, they can communicate together.

[21:47] Yes, Jennifer is this today on the building that has the annual haunted house.

[21:54] Do they do that and you're familiar with that?

[21:57] I think it's rented.

[21:58] I'm sorry.

[22:00] Yeah.

[22:01] Right.

[22:02] So you I'm sorry.

[22:02] Say that again.

[22:03] Sorry.

[22:03] I think it's rented.

[22:05] Yeah.

[22:05] So you're going to be running that out again.

[22:07] Yeah.

[22:08] I mean, we're going to keep it clean.

[22:10] Like whatever like they're doing we're just gonna keep it same way sure

[22:14] Okay, I never been there, but neither is very popular, so

[22:20] Yeah, so definitely I would like to say that once we clean up the building everything when we're ready

[22:24] Will come in person properly and invite you guys to come and see give us more ideas what we can do

[22:29] You know, yeah, I got some haunted house ideas

[22:31] And now we'll go with you cuz we haven't checked out that yet. Okay, sounds good. All right. Thank you

[22:40] I got motion in a second. Jennifer. One more thing quickly. I know you mentioned that you were going to

[22:46] You're looking at potentially doing the exterior a little bit

[22:50] Okay, painting are there any limitations with the downtown on the painting there that you know of all the

[22:57] Well, we do have the as you know the box walk design guidelines that have to be implemented and and

[23:03] It has been keeping with it can't be like

[23:06] or anything like that, it has to be in keeping with the...

[23:09] I mean, my Shamrock.

[23:11] Our idea is not...

[23:14] Our idea is not to go crazy with pain and all,

[23:17] but keep it simple and sober, but attractive.

[23:20] Yeah, I would talk to city staff like Tracey and...

[23:23] I think it's Miss Jill.

[23:26] Jill, yes.

[23:27] So we're in the contact with her.

[23:30] We're in the contact with planning and zoning,

[23:33] So we're working on of that too great. Yeah, there's a committee called a design review committee that oversees

[23:37] Development and redevelopment within the downtown so Joe can keep you informed so good question. Thank you

[23:45] All them about yeah, one more question and this this is a little bit of a selfish question

[23:50] Since you say you are somewhat separating from the Valley Doyle and Downers grow so if an

[23:58] Entity had a gift card presently

[24:01] They could use that gift card at either a war or a downer's grow

[24:06] Do I need to tell those people to rush to Aurora within the next two weeks because that's going to change or

[24:14] We used to accept. Well, it's too accepted. Yeah. All right

[24:19] Sounds good. Are we good? So we have a motion by all the women Smith taking my old man Union's all favor say aye

[24:26] Aye opposed passes five to zero good luck

[24:29] Thank you sir. Thank you. Is there anything else to come before the PHST hearing nothing we have a motion adjourned by Oliver Smith second by Oliver Nunez all in favor say aye aye and we are adjourned at 424

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