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20191219-095204-191218.Pdf FREE Locally owned A Newspaper for the rest of us • www.lansingcitypulse.com December 18-24, 2019 Talking Turkey in 2019 Politics, Family and the Holidays See page 12 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • December 18, 2019 Christmas Trees Available Now Wreaths, Grave Blankets, Grave Pillows and Kissing Balls, too! Early Prepay Discount Fertilization 15% Prebuy 10% Buy 6 OFF OFF applications Everything Irrigation by 2020 get Except Activation and 1 additional Limestone Winterization if application or Delivery Not Included, you sign up by Free Aeration. Must Present Coupon Jan 1st Excludes Floral Shop Contact the office at 517-322-2671 for Outdoor Beautification Services 1434 E. 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Goodbye, yellow curved roof Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence Johnson, Terry Link, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Dennis Preston, Carrie Sampson, Nevin Speerbrecker, Rich Tupica, Ute Von Der Cover Heyden, David Winkelstern, Paul Wozniak Distribution manager: Art Garrett Clinard • (517) 999-6704 Delivery drivers: Garrett Clinard, Dave Fisher, Dale By Nevin Speerbrecker Gartner, Jack Sova, Gavin Smith Interns: Matthew Stine • [email protected] Talking Turkey in 2019 Politics, Family and the Holidays NOW AT 10:00 A.M. SUNDAYS on FOR City Pulse • December 18, 2019 www.lansingcitypulse.com DESIGN5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION Is Lansing the future weed capital of Michigan? FOR Entrepreneurs look beyond Ann Arbor amid industry expansion DESIGN By KYLE KAMINSKI James Daly holds a momentous dis- tinction in Michigan’s budding recre- ational marijuana industry. As the owner of Arbor’s Wellness in Ann Arbor, Daly was the first licensed weed salesman to sell a legal bag of recreational pot in the state. For him, that sale helped materialize years of legislative evolution for an industry that was once considered an unthink- able notion. And it also energized his This week’s Eye for Design can be expansion plans. found at an indoor location in the “In Ann Arbor, this has been a big greater Lansing area. If you know industry and sort of a statewide desti- where, send an email to me at car- nation for medical — and now recre- [email protected] ational — marijuana,” Daly said. “But by next Wednesday, December 25. the bottom line is that the industry in The first one to correctly identify Lansing is poised to be much bigger the location wins an Eye for Design than Ann Arbor simply because of the mug – which could come in handy cultivation and processing facilities when visiting that location. taking off within the city.” Kyle Kaminski/City Pulse Daly’s parent company — Arbor Reveal: Arbor Farm, the company behind one of the first licensed recreational pot shops Last month’s Eye for Design Farm — is one of the largest license in Michigan, is in the midst of renovating a 144,000-square-foot industrial space to holders for growing operations in was correctly identified by Susan house up to 15,000 plants on the corner of Hazel and Hosmer streets. Lansing. It recently secured $17 mil- Sweitzer as the parking ramp at lion in funding. Crews are renovating at the recreational market.” with decidedly pro-pot Brandon Betz. Sparrow Hospital on Michigan a massive, 144,000-square-foot indus- The Lansing City Council in October Lansing’s competitive scoring pro- Avenue. Several others also recog- trial space on the corner of Hosmer welcomed Michigan’s recreational cess for recreational pot — much like nized it; however, there was less and Hazel streets to house 15,000 marijuana industry by amending an for medical — allows would-be retail- agreement about what the design plants. ordinance that could eventually allow ers to apply for a limited number of is called. The likeliest answer is “In Ann Arbor, there are less than for up to 28 dispensaries for both licenses. The highest scoring applicants Roman lattice, defined by the a handful of growers,” Daly added. medical and recreational weed in the on criteria like capital investment and Institute of Classical Architecture “These operators are all kind of eyeing city. Applications for those shops open job opportunities will get first dibs. A and Art (ICAA) as “an openwork Lansing as their headquarters in this next week. Officials plan to get them preference will also be given to those system of rectangular bars cross- industry, and we’re all intent on open- licensed as quickly as possible. already licensed for medical sales. ing each other to make a pattern of ing up as quickly as we can.” Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope Swope noted that Lansing’s licensed triangles (usually, but not always, But why isn’t Lansing already com- estimated that recreational dispensa- provisioning centers are all in “pretty right triangles) within repetitive peting with Ann Arbor for the state’s ry licenses could be issued as soon as good position” to go recreational. squares.” first recreational sales? Supply issues February. But after the state started The 30-day window for recreation- — CARRIE SAMPSON are slowing the market. Some indus- issuing licenses earlier this month, al applications will open Dec. 23. In try insiders also blame the Lansing Lansing has already fallen behind. the meantime, and after Ann Arbor’s City Council and an overly competi- “Look at the history. Lansing has had licensed shops raked in more than tive selection process. But most agree: some significant resistance to adopting $1.6 million in the first week of sales, Lansing hasn’t missed out on much. pro-cannabis ordinances,” Thompson Lansing’s local pot entrepreneurs have And momentum is building. added. “Ann Arbor, on the other hand, been forced to sit on the sidelines as “Lansing and Flint were both one or was willing to make this work more the industry plants roots on the other two Council members away from being quickly.
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