In recent days momentum has grown for the Bronx’s legal cannabis industry. By fall 2023, the former Mott Haven Bar & Grill location at 2412 Third Ave. is primed to become the South Bronx’s first legal recreational cannabis dispensary, the Bronx Times has learned.
Construction at the site, according to CannaSummit CEO Michael Montes, will begin sometime next week, after receiving majority approval from Bronx Community Board 1 at their general board meeting Thursday.
“Plans are that construction will begin this upcoming week, and we just wanted the community’s approval. We want to work with the community, not against the community,” Montes told the Bronx Times. “We want to answer (community) concerns over details on how it would be operating, safety measures, operating times, security camera footage … and we answered all their questions.”
Both CannaSummit and CONBUD, which is hoping to also open a Manhattan cannabis retail storefront in early fall 2023, will be co-operators of the Mott Haven dispensary.
One of the co-founders of CONBUD is Alfredo Angueira, who founded Hoodspitality Group, a Bronx-based marketing agency which owns and operates multiple eateries in the South Bronx.
After months of wondering when and where the first legal retail dispensary would break ground, two Bronx dispensaries could be contributing to the state’s nascent green industry, which has made more than $16.5 million in sales to date, by summer’s end.
On Tuesday, plans by cousins-turned-business partners Levent Ozkurt and Denis Ozkurt to open an Allerton-based dispensary, New York City Cannabis Emporium, pushed forward, despite no recommendation from Community Board 11. Construction at the 2460 Williamsbridge Road is already underway, and could be finished in “two months” time, Levent Ozkurt told the Bronx Times in a previous interview.
There are 13 open and operating legal dispensaries statewide, with four of the six NYC-licensed recreational dispensaries…
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