A Springfield businessman hopes to open a chain of establishments that would offer alcoholic beverages, prepackaged snacks, and video gambling.
The State Journal-Register reports owner Chris Stone wants to open as many as nine of the establishments, to be called Lucy’s Place, in Springfield and nearby communities, and has applied for liquor licenses in those locations.
But those communities would also have to change their laws to allow those state-licensed video poker machines.
Springfield Mayor Mike Houston has indicated that he will introduce an ordinance to allow video gaming in the near future.
