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Chelsea licensing panel approves later music hours for Harbor House Collective
Summary
Chelsea Licensing Commission voted to extend amusement-and-entertainment hours for Jolo Khan LLC d/b/a Harbor House Collective at 80 Eastern Ave from 9 a.m.–9 p.m. to 9 a.m.–11 p.m.; police raised ongoing false-alarm concerns tied to a malfunctioning motion detector.
Chelsea Licensing Commission on Feb. 13, 2025, approved a change to the amusement and entertainment license for Jolo Khan LLC d/b/a Harbor House Collective at 80 Eastern Ave, extending permitted background-music hours from 9 a.m.–9 p.m. to 9 a.m.–11 p.m.
The change was requested so the license’s hours match the business’s operating hours and to cover a Bluetooth speaker on the sales floor, Richard Soo, co-founder and chief compliance officer at Jolo Khan LLC, told the commission. “They have been hit or miss. They've definitely needed some education… we do have a pretty healthy amount of people coming between 9 and 11,” Soo said.
The license change drew a safety-related question from Sergeant Chung of the Chelsea Police Department. Chung told the panel that, between January 2024 and the present, the store had “about 20–22 false burglar alarms” and that four false alarms had already occurred this year, citing specific calls on Jan. 19, Jan. 29, Jan. 30 and Feb. 10. Chung said the department would monitor the situation and follow up with the licensee.
Soo said the business has investigated the alarms with its security company and traced the problem to a single motion detector that was malfunctioning. “We've replaced it. We've rewired it,” Soo said, adding he had work orders and had asked the security company to disregard alarms from that detector while replacement continues. He said staff training and equipment repairs were in progress to avoid unnecessary police responses.
Commissioners pressed only briefly on non-substantive items during the hearing (questions about merchandise and past DJ use) and heard that the DJ reference on the application was likely a holdover from an older license; Soo said the venue has not used a DJ since 2022 and would remove that category if needed.
A motion to approve the hours change was made, seconded and approved by voice vote. The board did not record a roll-call tally in the hearing.
The commission asked police and the licensee to continue monitoring alarm activity and said staff would follow up if false alarms persist.
