Owners of the city’s first cannabis business have been given the go-ahead to expand by opening an about $15 million cannabis cultivation facility in an industrial building that has been partially vacant since 2017.
The City Council voted 10-0 with one abstention last week to approve a special permit that will allow Mass Alternative Care Inc. to open a second business. When adopting the permit, the council also accepted five waivers to its regulations, some of which were technicalities.
With the special permit and approval from the State Cannabis Control Commission, Mass Alternative Care Inc. plans to open an about 56,000-square-foot cannabis cultivation and manufacturing business at 77 Champion Drive, in the part of the building that most recently held Menck Windows.
The company was the first to open a cannabis business in Hampden County. It has been operating a medical cannabis business at 1274 East Main St., since 2018 and expanded to retail sales at the same spot in 2019. Mass Alternative Care also has a cultivation and production operation at the site.
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