Village Gives Initial OK to Grant Program Offsetting $10,000 Liquor Licenses
With Shorewood currently out of regular Class B liquor licenses and forced to charge $10,000 for reserve permits, village officials seek to avoid discouraging prospective Shorewood business owners with excessive fees.
Given the quandary Shorewood officials and a new business owner navigated in October, the village gave initial approval Friday to a new grant program aimed at offsetting the hefty $10,000 cost of a reserve Class B liquor license. When Salvatore’s Pizza opened its doors in Shorewood last spring, it was issued the village's 14th and last $600 Class B license. State law allots municipalities a set number of Class B licenses and some reserve Class B liquor licenses based on its population, which are required to be sold for no less than $10,000. Class B licenses allow establishments to serve hard liquor, beer and wine. So when a new Asian restaurant and sushi bar came to town, NaNa Asian Fusion, it became the first establishment in Shorewood to…
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Absolutelyfabulous
6:59 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
If the license is held current? I take that as you meaning when one operator goes out then another one is ready to jump in and take over the operations w/out interruption..Does this include if the business coming into the space changes it's name as well; ie Tina's Tacos and now Bob's Burgers? If that is the train of thought then my question is how many restaurants go out of business and the space… more ›