A Keene City Council committee has recommended approving a new restaurant for the city-owned Dillant-Hopkins Airport in North Swanzey.
The council’s finance, organization and personnel committee unanimously recommended moving forward with an Italian restaurant, which would fill the vacancy left by India Pavilion.
Councilor Kris E. Roberts, the committee’s vice chairman who conducted the meeting Thursday night in Chairman Mitchell H. Greenwald’s absence, said Gary Taylor, who is proposing the restaurant, will likely pay $600 a month in rent to the city, while paying property taxes to the town of Swanzey, where the airport is physically located.
Roberts said Taylor and his chef/manager, Antonio Martino, propose a menu with moderately priced items, ranging from $9.95 to $15.95.
Roberts said the duo have big plans for the space.
“They will invest $35,000 to upgrade the facility,” he said. “Part of it’s going to be for modern equipment, bakery items so he can make his own breads on the premises, and to update the décor to meet an Italian restaurant (theme).”
Martino trained in Sorrento, Italy, and his “extensive experience working in various hotels and restaurants in Europe and the U.S.,” according to city documents.
“He wants to make his own sauces, his own bread, open it up for catering, special functions, and basically also wants to be able to conduct cooking classes for people who want to do their own Italian cooking,” Roberts said.
Roberts said the committee also agreed to recommend paying H.G. Johnson Real Estate a 12 percent finder’s fee for bringing the proposal to the city, which would come out to about $900 for the first year only.
“To pay $900 to have someone else do all the work is much better than using city manpower to try to come up with it,” he said.
The full council will vote on the proposal at Thursday’s council meeting.
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