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Hub pot is local pot and local pot is fresh: Board approves Boston's first facility for growing marijuana
By adamg on Tue, 01/29/2019 - 3:14pm
The Zoning Board of Appeals today unanimously approved a potrepreneur's proposal for a three-story building in Newmarket Square in which to grow what he says will be craft marijuana for both recreational and medicinal uses.
Green Line Boston's nearly 20,000-square-foot indoor-grow facility would be the first in Boston, if it can win approval of the state Cannabis Control Commission to grow marijuana plants and to develop "derivative products" for sale elsewhere.
Mario Signore, Jr., whose family has long been more associated with ice and coal, plans to build the facility on a family-owned lot at 100-114 Hampden St., off Kemble Street.
The company signed a "host-community agreement" with the city in October, which calls for payment of 3% of gross revenues to the city and which bans any consumption of the company's products on site.
Green Line's host-community agreement (2.9M PDF).
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good headline! I sing the
good headline! I sing the song....not loudly.. when I buy eggs.
plus and minus
plus: jobs in the city, money staying in the city
minus: a farm indoors is a ridiculous waste of shelter, production may be limited at less than 1 acre, where's the electricity for grow lights coming from?
It's zoned as an Industrial
It's zoned as an Industrial Subdistrict. Not sure housing would work here.
Building size corrected
Although the zoning-board application says roughly 40,000 square feet, the final proposal was closer to 20,000, so I've fixed that in the post.
If a place that grows pot
If a place that grows pot burns down, is that good or bad?
There goes the neighborhood.
Oh, wait, Newmarket Square? Never mind.
To all the losers and haters:
To all the losers and haters:
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Beantown Pot?
Beanpot?
From contented cows?
From contented cows?