(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

At a meeting late Monday afternoon at the Center Township Municipal Building, the Board of Supervisors granted the liquor license transfer from the former Main Street Bar in Aliquippa to the Cinemark Cinemas location on Wagner Road in Monaca.

Paul Namey, the same lawyer who spoke on behalf of Sheetz recently in a similar case, spoke on behalf of Cinemark USA at the meeting. He alerted the board of supervisors, as well as those in attendance, that approval of the transfer did not automatically mean that the theater will start selling alcohol immediately:

 

Matt Dunn also spoke on behalf of Cinemark USA, and he emphasized that the selling of alcohol would not be a call to rowdiness or dive bar-like atmospheres, but simply is an extra luxury that would be available for a small part of Cinemark’s core audience:

 

 

Dunn, in response to a question by Center police chief Barry Kramer, said that the Cinemark location would sell beer and wine, as well as frozen mixed drinks that contain liquor. He mentioned the average price of such drinks range from $6 to $9.

Stay tuned to Beaver County Radio for further details on the development of this story.