DANVILLE — Lower than 5 months after Danville officers rejected a proposal for a 3rd hashish dispensary on the town’s far japanese edge, one other operator is giving it a strive.
The town’s Planning & Zoning Fee will maintain a public listening to at 5:15 p.m. Thursday to think about a request for a special-use allow from MariWorks LLC of Chicago to function a dispensary on at present undeveloped land at 500 Eastgate Drive, throughout the road from Danville Metallic Stamping Co. on the Lynch Street exit with Interstate 74.
A web site plan included within the utility says in a single nook: “NuEra Danville, Eastgate Drive.”
If the allow is authorised, it will pave the way in which for a 3rd dispensary in that space, becoming a member of Sunnyside at 369 Lynch Drive and the deliberate (and authorised) Seven Factors of Illinois dispensary at 380 Eastgate Drive.
In January, the council rejected a proposal to develop Parkway Dispensary in the identical space.
MariWorks’ utility, which has already attracted at the very least two opponents, states that a part of the property at 500 Eastgate could be used for a dispensary, leaving the remaining for future improvement.
MariWorks couldn’t be reached for remark Thursday.
The zoning fee obtained a letter opposing the proposed dispensary from Gardner Peck, govt vp of Danville Metallic Stamping.
“Granting this allow would lead to three separate dispensaries inside 2,200 ft of one another. This focus is just not useful for the commercial park,” his letter states. “It’s seemingly {that a} third facility immediately throughout the highway from our facility would lead to Danville Metallic Stamping feeling the necessity to add much more safety cameras at our facility to make sure the protection and safety of Danville Metallic Stamping staff and property.”
Unhealthy Zerman, CEO of Seven Level, stated it has a mobilization date of July 18 from a Chicago contractor for its deliberate 6,500-square-foot constructing, and he hopes to see that dispensary able to open late within the first quarter of subsequent 12 months.
In the meantime, he’s becoming a member of the opposition to a 3rd dispensary, saying Seven Factors “is being undermined by the Danville Planning and Zoning Fee and the Danville Metropolis Council.”
“We got here to Danville early on — simply 4 days after Seven Level’s lottery ball was chosen in August 2021,” he stated. “We met with the town and Vermilion Benefit, and inside a pair months, we had 380 Eastgate Drive below a purchase order contract, obtained all mandatory zoning for a dispensary and we continued paying cash to the vendor by means of the remainder of 2021 and all of 2022 whereas the state handled litigation points.”
If the request for the most recent dispensary is authorised, Zerman stated, it “short-serves the town of Danville and forces most residents to 1 space for hashish.”
“Why not unfold these shops across the space and enhance property values in different areas? I paid over $500,000 for our land, and it was already overpriced from the on line casino coming to the realm,” he stated. “As soon as hashish firms go to different areas of the town, different companies will observe, rising property values all through the realm.”
Zerman additionally contended that there received’t be a necessity for third dispensary within the space, “which can simply trigger redundancy within the product combine.”
He stated Seven Factors is an unbiased hashish firm, and the Danville retailer is one in all two it has deliberate, with the opposite in Berkley, Mich.