Cities that were early to opt in to recreational cannabis are now seeing the benefits from entrepreneurs redeveloping old properties into sleek, modern retail businesses.
Muskegon, for example, initially created a medical marijuana overlay district to steer development within an underutilized industrial section of the city. The city’s first dispensary, Park Place Provisionary at 1922 Park St. that has been rebranded as New Standard Park Place, started selling recreational cannabis on Jan. 17, 2020.
Muskegon now has six dispensaries just east of Seaway Drive. Last fall, city commissioners in a divided vote amended its zoning ordinance to expand the marijuana district and add six individual properties.
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