Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Mayor John McCormac got some questions at Tuesday's council meeting about how the medical marijuana dispensary coming to town was on the QT for over a year.
The medical marijuana store that may soon be setting up on Route 1 in Woodbridge is just another retail store. Mayor John McCormac said that the opening of the Compassionate Care Center of New Jersey's pot shop "is just like Boscov's," a mid-level retailer soon to be moving into Woodbridge Center's old Fortunoff store. "It's a retail use turning into another retail use," the mayor said, comparing Compassionate Care to the new flagship department store due to open at the local mall. The mayor and other officials were peppered with questions from the public at a Tuesday night council meeting about the news last week that the medical marijuana emporium was coming to town. McCormac said then that he knew about the company's efforts to open in…
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The medical marijuana dispensary, slated to be open in Woodbridge, still faces hurdles before it comes to fruition.
Mayor John McCormac may be welcoming a medical marijuana warehouse within months to Woodbridge, but there are still a few steps before that becomes a reality. The former 6th Ave. Electronics, which closed last year, is on Route 1, which is a redevelopment zone. An official in the town's planning department said that the project has to come before the Woodbridge Redevelopment Agency, and then the Planning Board, before it's approved. Route 1 in Woodbridge is a redevelopment zone, the offical explained. The various hearings the project must go through will give township residents an opportunity to weigh in on siting the marijuana warehouse within town limits. "It has to come before different agencies to be approved," the official said. …
Monday, August 27, 2012
Other towns are trying to shut out medical marijuana clinics; in Woodbridge, Mayor John McCormac welcomes them. One may be open here in as little as four months.
One of six medical marijuana clinics in the state will be situated in Woodbridge, and it could be just four months away from opening. Compassionate Care Centers of New Jersey, which has been trolling about for a town in central New Jersey to host a medical marijuana dispensary, bought the defunct 6th Avenue Electronics store on Route 1, according to a report on nj.com, with plans to turn it into a warehouse to grow and sell the plant. The pot purveyors purchased the electronics store building last week for $2.75 million, nj.com reported, saying the buy had been in the works for over a year, even though 6th Avenue Electronics only went out of business last October. Medical marijuana centers have had a hard time trying to find …
gary seven
2:27 pm on Thursday, October 11, 2012
just like the OTW Siting of MAY 2006.page 43 on ---read it.................. http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/legislativepub/pubhear/swt051106.pdf SENATOR BUONO: But isn’t part or the problem the public perception associated with OTB, that there’s local objection? I know iin Woodbridge- more ›