The Mt. Carmel City Council will not allow a fifth liquor store to open in the city. Jeff Thomas of Comeaux’s Daiquiri Depot appeared at Monday’s City Council meeting asking commissioners to issue a fifth Class C license for packaged liquor stores.
Recently, the city awarded the final open license to an Evansville businessman to open a liquor store in the former Family Video store on Walnut Street.
Thomas said his group has purchased the former Boss Machine Shop at 3rd and Chestnut Streets with plans for a package store with video gaming machines.
But, after Mayor Joe Judge said all of the public feedback he had heard on the new Walnut Street liquor was negative, commissioners made no move to accommodate a fifth liquor store.
Currently, there are 74 video gaming terminals in Mt. Carmel bringing in more than $130,000 for the city since May 1st of last year.