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Pot store proposals all over

The location of 28 of the 41 proposed cannabis retail stores before Kelowna City Council have been revealed on the city's website.

The deadline for the first intake of store proposals ended on Nov. 30, and the city will be evaluating the applicants and the proposed locations over “the next few months.”

Two of the applications are from the BC Liquor Distribution Branch, the government agency tasked with distributing and selling retail cannabis.

The two proposed locations for the government cannabis stores are in the Dilworth Centre shopping plaza near the Safeway and Staples, and in the Capri Centre shopping plaza.

The BC Liquor Distribution Branch opened the province's first legal recreational cannabis store in Kamloops on Oct. 17.

Cannabis stores have been proposed in most areas of the city.

Downtown, three applicants have proposed stores on Pandosy Street between Leon and Lawrence avenues, including at the site of the Starbuds medical cannabis dispensary, which was shut down by the city in January. 

Another proposed downtown location is on Ellis Street, just north of Lawrence Avenue, while three applicants are hoping to set up shop on Bernard Avenue between Ellis and Bertram streets.

A little farther north, two retail locations have been proposed on St. Paul Street between Cawston and Doyle avenues, while another has been proposed on Vaughan Avenue, across from the BC Tree Fruits Market.

Two stores are hoping for approval in the Glenmore area, near Kane Road, while another two have been proposed near the Landmark buildings.

To the south, the Domino's Pizza on Gordon Drive near Cook Road may get a cannabis store as a neighbour, perhaps a welcome addition for the pizza joint.

No less than four stores have applied for cannabis sales rezoning on or near Enterprise Way, and another four are seeking approval in Rutland.

And so far, the closest proposed locations to the no-doubt lucrative UBC Okanagan market are four just east of Reid's Corner.

The remaining 13 proposed sites are expected to be added to the city's website in the near future. All of the applications are still subject to evaluation by a committee in the new year, and those that are approved must still get a licence to sell cannabis from the province.

Doors aren't expected to open at the first legal cannabis store in Kelowna until late spring or early summer 2019.



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