Domino Refinery proposal

300 Kent Ave Music Venue / Restaurant

Summary

A live-music venue and restaurant is proposed for the ground floor of the Domino Refinery at 300 Kent Avenue, with an outdoor patio, a planned capacity of 1,045 patrons, and a proposed 2 a.m. closing time.

Before this proposal moves forward, residents need clear answers and concrete protections to address concerns around crowding, traffic, security, and noise. Please read the petition to see our requests, and sign to support these protections.

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The waterfront, hour by hour

Based on the venue applicant’s own traffic study

Illustrative scenario

Watch the arrivals and departures projected in the venue applicant’s own traffic study from 8 p.m. through the 2 a.m. close, followed by later rides home from the park and square.

Normal traffic is not included.Only the proposed venue’s additional people and cars are shown, on top of everyday neighborhood traffic.

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Domino waterfront, from the East River to Kent AvenueOpenStreetMap street and building geometry. The Refinery is red, between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets. The buildings at 1 South 1st Street, 325 Kent Avenue and 8 South 4th Street are green. Three outlined pickup spaces outside 8 South 4th Street are assumed for this illustration. River Street runs south; Kent Avenue runs north.EAST RIVERDOMINO PARKTHEREFINERY300 Kent AveDOMINOSQUARE325Kent Ave1 South1st StreetSouth 1st St →← South 2nd StSouth 3rd St →← South 4th StRiver St ↓Kent Ave ↑8 South4th StreetEntranceN50 m

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1 dot = 1 patron1 car = 1 vehicle visitHighlighted residences

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15% visit the park or square after leaving the venue; 85% head straight home.

Of those staying: 80% Domino Park · 20% Domino Square.

Of park-bound patrons: 70% south toward the bridge · 30% north.

Walking time and waiting for a pickup are additional. Range: 0–180 minutes.

38% of those staying take a taxi or rideshare home; the rest leave by other modes.

Of square rides: 50% South 4th · 50% South 3rd.

With these settings: 297 patrons stay nearby · 57 pickups after a stay · 373 total pickups across the night (study: 373).

Pickups outside 8 South 4th St

3 cars at a time · 90 seconds per pickup

The three outlined spaces are an assumption; available curb space has not been verified. Each holds one car while passengers get in. When all are occupied, the next car waits.

Rides after staying nearby: With these settings, 38% of the patrons lingering in the park or square take a taxi or rideshare home. Southern park patrons use South 4th; northern park patrons use South 1st; square rides split 50% to South 4th and 50% to South 3rd. Pickups follow the 45-minute stay and walk to the curb, at about two passengers per car with whole-car rounding.

How to read this: The study supplies the venue’s patron arrivals and departures. Your settings change who stays, their destinations and the resulting pickup demand. The default settings preserve the study’s total of 373 pickups; other settings can raise or lower it. The hourly figures show where and when pickups occur. Ordinary neighborhood traffic is not included.

Assumptions and hourly figures

For patrons who do not linger, half of taxi and rideshare pickups use the managed River Street / South 3rd Street loading area, shown together on River Street. The other half split equally between South 4th and South 1st, rounded to whole cars. The study discusses 40–50% dispersal during peaks; this illustration uses 50% in every hour. All drop-offs use River Street. Private cars travel toward or from parking east of Kent Avenue. The separate South 3rd count covers square patrons’ later rides only.

The study uses a 38% for-hire share for departures from 10 p.m. onward and two passengers per for-hire vehicle. The ride-share control applies to people who stay in the park or square, including earlier in the evening. Each area and departure hour is rounded to whole cars, with approximately two riders each; a final unpaired rider can travel alone. The square pickup split also uses whole-car rounding.

The default scenario separates each study hour’s pickups into direct rides and rides after a stay. Direct pickup demand scales between the study allocation when nobody stays, the current default at 15% staying, and zero direct pickups when everybody stays. Later rides are calculated separately from your selected taxi/rideshare share. The two taxi/rideshare groups are counted once each. Changing travel preferences can change the total car count, and changing area splits can cause small whole-car rounding differences. Drop-offs and private-car flows retain the study figures.

Departures and immediate pickup demand are concentrated in the first 30 minutes of the 11 p.m. and closing intervals; other flows are spread through their hours. These within-hour times are illustrative. Lingering patrons walk 6–10 minutes to the park or square, stay 45 minutes, then walk 8 minutes to their pickup or onward route. Ride companions wait together and board their assigned car during its stop. Other pedestrian movements remain schematic.

Each red car enters and leaves once per vehicle visit; the two movements are not counted as two cars. Scenario hourly pickups count cars due at the curb in that hour; queues can delay service into a later interval. Playback extends through the final people and cars, rounding its end to the next quarter-hour. Later stages add no new patron departures from the venue.

South 4th and South 1st pickups last 90 seconds, assuming less active traffic management on those streets. South 4th has 3 assumed pickup spaces along the frontage of 8 South 4th Street, shown as outlined boxes. Usable space and curb restrictions have not been verified. At 90 seconds per stop, 3 continuously usable spaces have a theoretical capacity of 120 pickups per hour. Immediate and later pickups share the same spaces and queue.

River Street uses 4 loading positions with 30-second stops for pickups and drop-offs, representing the applicant’s managed River Street / South 3rd Street loading area. This uses the upper end of the plan’s three-to-four positions and its target stop time. South 1st and South 3rd pickups last 90 seconds, without a modeled limit on curb space. The queue calculation covers loading availability only; it does not model signals, double-parking, other venues or background traffic.

All adjustable settings are behavioral assumptions, with whole-person rounding. They affect only your current view; Reset assumptions restores 15% staying nearby, 80% park / 20% square, 70% south / 30% north within the park, a 45-minute stay, 38% taking rides, and square pickups split equally between South 3rd and South 4th. After-hours presence does not mean the park remains open: Domino Park lists an 11 p.m. closing time.

Venue applicant’s traffic study: demand by hour
HourPatrons inPatrons outDrop-offsPickupsPrivate cars in / out
8–9 p.m.35475501116 / 3
9–10 p.m.1417520116 / 3
10–11 p.m.461817342 / 8
11 p.m.–midnight3037284313913 / 32
Midnight–1 a.m.411122582318 / 5
1–2 a.m.11932817635 / 14
2 a.m. close · study interval 2–3 a.m.04830920 / 21
Scenario pickups by hour, including later rides
HourRiver St / managed baySouth 4th StSouth 1st StSouth 3rd St · square ridesAfter a stay
8–9 p.m.52200
9–10 p.m.53302
10–11 p.m.158802
11 p.m.–midnight59333015
Midnight–1 a.m.10199221
1–2 a.m.27171404
2 a.m. close · study interval 2–3 a.m.39262119
3 a.m.–3:45 a.m. · later rides home093214

Sources: July 2026 traffic study — Tables 6–8 and loading plan; Table 4, mode shares and vehicle occupancy. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors · Map data. Map is rotated to follow the waterfront; paths are simplified.

Traffic

Source study

Traffic study

GZA GeoEnvironmental · July 2026

The applicant’s assessment of projected patron arrivals and departures, traffic and parking demand, and plans for taxi and rideshare pickups and drop-offs.

36 pages · PDF · 86.2 MB

Summary report

Traffic summary & review

Domino Neighbors · September 10, 2026

A review of the traffic assumptions, calculations, and questions for follow-up.

6 pages · PDF · 82 KB

Sound

Source study

Sound study

GZA GeoEnvironmental · SLA Acoustic Evaluation

The applicant’s acoustic assessment, covering outdoor noise measurements, projected music and patron noise, and potential effects on nearby homes and public spaces.

17 pages · PDF · 25.0 MB

Summary report

Sound summary & review

Domino Neighbors · September 10, 2026

A review of the acoustic assumptions, reported results, and questions for follow-up.

8 pages · PDF · 87 KB