Baltimore’s liquor board on Thursday approved a Class “B” Beer, Wine and Liquor license for No Land Beyond, Baltimore’s first board game bar, so it can sell alcoholic beverages when it moves to a new location in the Station North Arts and Entertainment District. The vote was 3 to 0.
Currently located at 2125 Maryland Ave., No Land Beyond will be an anchor tenant of The Parlor, an arts hub that is being created inside the former Stewart & Mowen funeral home at 108 W. North Ave. Owners Michael Cohn and Mark Brown announced their plans to move earlier this year.
“They do a lot of board games and other activities that are very family-friendly as well as have cocktails and food,” attorney Abraham Hurdle told the liquor board. “This location will be a little more food-focused. They’ve been surprised at how much food is a part of the business.”
The liquor board requires an investment of at least $200,000 for restaurant fixtures and facilities and seating for at least 75 people. Hurdle told that board that Cohn and Brown have spent “several hundred thousand dollars” already and plan to spend “another $200,000 or more,” and that the facility will seat 81 people indoors with additional seating outdoors. He said the owners are aiming to open in a couple of months.
No Land Beyond started in 2018. Hurdle said the applicants have a BD-7 tavern license associated with their Maryland Avenue location and plan to turn it in, sell it or shelve it in some capacity before opening in Station North.
In approving the restaurant license, the liquor board members also allowed No Land Beyond to provide live entertainment, outdoor table service and delivery of alcoholic beverages in the Station North location.
Casino license holder changed
The liquor board also approved a change to the Class “BWL-VLF” Casino Video Lottery Facility License for Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, the city’s only casino, at 1525 Russell Street, 2105 Haines Street and 1555 Warner Street. The board approved a request to add Baltimore resident Jacob Witmer to the license, joining CBAC Borrower LLC, the corporate entity that owns the facility and will remain on the license.
Attorney Caroline Hecker told the board that Horseshoe Casino Baltimore has historically had its general manager on the license and Witmer recently became the general manager, so that is why he is being added. She said there is no proposed change in the operation of the casino, which opened on August 26, 2014.
