In somewhat of a departure from recent community meetings centered on proposed cannabis businesses, a majority of those who attended Thursday’s meeting of the South End Neighborhood Association voted in support of a planned cultivation facility on Kilburn Street.
Regeneration LLC’s plan is to convert the mill building at 394 Kilburn St., most notably used as the home of Korber Hats, into a multi-use building that would house a cannabis cultivation facility and possible retail space for non-cannabis businesses.
Thursday was Regeneration LLC’s second time going before the neighborhood association. A roughly two-thirds majority of residents voted in favor of supporting the company’s plans, a fact that SENA Secretary Sue Mathias said she found surprising.
“We had a lot of questions asked and they answered all of them. There were good questions brought up and at the end we took a vote and it was overwhelmingly in support of the facility,” she said.
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