2025-12-04 Liquor Commission Packet Hilo

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Liquor Commission Black Onyx Entertainment LLC dba Black Onyx Page 4 Landlord submitted a Consent and Acknowledgment for Liquor License Application dated June 12, 2025 consenting that Tasmine Curenton, named in the Lease as the Tenant for the referenced address of 202 Kamehameha Avenue, Hilo, Hawaii, may proceed with applying for a liquor license with the County of Hawaii, Department of Liquor Control. Landlord also acknowledged and recognized that Tasmine Curenton is the authorized representative of Black Onyx Entertainment LLC, operating under the dba Black Onyx and is applying for a liquor license. ZONING: Downtown Hilo Commercial District / State Land Use — Urban. SURROUNDING AREA: Survey of the surrounding area reveals that there is one church, Central Christian Church, and one school, Connections Public Charter School, located within 500 feet of the proposed licensed premises. There are no liquor licenses with the same class located within 500 feet of the proposed licensed premises. At the present time, there are two (2) of the same class of liquor license being lawfully exercised in the County of Hawaii. DETERMING PROTESTS WITHIN 500 FEET OF A SCHOOL OR PLAYGROUND: Section 281-39.5 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended, states in relevant part, "The liquor commission... may deny or restrict the issuance of a liquor license for on -site sale and consumption by the drink to any applicant whose establishment is or would be located within five hundred feet of a public or private elementary, intermediate, or high school, or public playground utilized extensively by minors, as determined by the liquor commission." Section 281-39.5 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended, also states in relevant part, "...that the liquor commission... shall deny the issuance of a liquor license if forty per cent of the registered voters... owners and lessees of record of real estate and owners of record of shares in a cooperative apartment within five hundred feet of the nearest point of the premises for which the licensed is asked; have duly filed or caused to be filed their protests against granting the license." PREVIOUS OPERATION AS A NON -LICENSEE: On or about November 10, 2024, our Department received a tip that a business located at 202 Kamehameha Avenue in Hilo was selling and serving liquor, including offering bottle service, without a liquor license. Upon further investigation by the Department, including an undercover investigation, it was determined that Applicant was selling and serving alcohol without a liquor license. On November 27, 2024, the Department of Liquor Control delivered/issued Applicant a notice to immediately cease and desist all liquor operations, including but not limited to the sale (selling, serving, or furnishing) of liquor, to surrender its liquor inventory and appear before the Liquor Commission on January 9, 2025. Approximately, twenty-six (26) bottles of liquor were removed from the premises.