Liquor License Eyed For Bay State Commons

Bay State Commons may get another restaurant if Westborough can get another liquor license for the shopping center, Town Manager Jim Malloy said Tuesday night.

Town Counsel Gregory Franks told selectmen that special legislation that would allow Westborough to grant one additional liquor license for Bay State Commons is in the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure.

Malloy said that "we have already a business looking at Bay State Commons" that may open a restaurant "if we can get this through the process."

"Sometimes, that takes a year or two years. Sometimes, that means a business goes somewhere else," he said.

Bay State Commons, at 12 Union St., is expected to get another eatery soon, although not one requiring a liquor license.

Plans for the Snow Bowl, a frozen yogurt shop, were approved by Health Inspector Terry Gilchrist in April, she told the board of health in her April inspection report.