Our goal is, and will always be, to run an honest, customer centered business providing an environment where everyone who enters is treated how ‘everyone desires to be treated’. While that may be true in many cases, our goal is not to run down our competitors, nor tell you we can beat their prices everyday (we all must buy from same authorized distributors with the same pricing, but we always strive to keep our prices competitive). We could tell you our prices and selection are better than our competitors. You are here seeking information on our Store and the selection of Liquor, Wine and Beer. Once we made a deal to purchase our building we started the process of remolding the space from a Doctor's Office into our NEW LIQUOR STORE THE BARREL HOUSE.Įnough about us, because we know you did not stop by our site to hear everything about us. The two of us decided now was the time with all the new laws going into effect Oct. We have always wanted to own a small business in Claremore and after talking with family that owns a liquor store in Stillwater.
White House has about 10,750 residents, according to Census data.Both of us are lifelong residents of Claremore/Rogers County and are raising 3 beautiful daughters.
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Once that occurs, the city will grant only one license for each 12,000 in population, it adds. Under the ordinance, no more than two package store licenses will be issued in White House until the city's official population is equal to or greater than 24,000 people. The city’s board passed an ordinance governing package liquor stores late last year after White House residents voted in November to pass a referendum allowing the stores by a vote of 676 to 358. Uptown ranked first and J&L Liquors ranked second, city leaders said. During the study session, the aldermen ranked the stores and chose a top two based on those rankings. The board held a study session in February to allow all of the applicants to present their ideas and plans for the proposed stores. Smith and the Raglands’ companies were joined by two other applicants seeking to open liquor stores in the city earlier this year. They’ve already expressed an interest in many different community activities.” “It’s a family partnership so they have family values and are committed in the community. “We’re excited to be able to offer it, that way our residents don’t have to drive out of the city in order to purchase that,” she said. White House Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Mandy Christenson said Thursday that she had been hearing lots of positive feedback from community members as well.
He took over operations there three years ago after his grandfather’s death, he said.ĭespite the setbacks with the White House opening, Smith said last week that so far he and his staff had gotten 100 percent positive feedback.
“It was a very intense six months trying to get through that, but we’re glad we stuck it out,” Smith said Friday.Ī Goodlettsville businessman, Smith operates 31W Liquors, Inc., a business his grandfather started in 1967. “I note that many folks will never realize the many months of preparation and bureaucratic obstacles that went into opening these two stores,” Herman said last week during the city’s regular board of mayor and aldermen meeting.īefore they could move forward in the opening process, the business owners were required to go through a lengthy application process with the State of Tennessee.
He added that the Raglands hope to have their business, to be housed in a 3,000 square-foot, free-standing facility, open to the public by Thanksgiving. J&L Liquors, owned by Joe and Michael Ragland, is currently under construction at 322 Hester Drive between Taco Bell and KFC, according to White House City Administrator Gerald Herman. The city’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen unanimously approved licenses for Uptown Wine and Spirits and a second package liquor store, to be named J&L Liquors, in March. We were trying to be open by July or August, but the process has changed since the last time I filled out the paperwork,” Smith said Friday. “A lot of people don’t know we’re open yet, just because of the delay in our initial opening. 3, but officials held the official ribbon cutting ceremony for the business on Thursday as a way to jump start a grand opening celebration that was scheduled to last through the weekend. Owned by Dustin Smith and Michael Brown, Uptown Wine and Spirits opened in White House on Sept. White House leaders attended grand opening festivities last week for the city’s first package liquor store, housed at the Kroger Shopping Complex next to Little Caesar's Pizza.
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