This story was reprinted with permission from Crain’s Cleveland Business and written by Stan Bullard.
The song “I Love You, Alice B. Toklas,” a 1968 love letter to marijuana-laced brownies, may come to mind with the proposed renovation of the one-time Record Rendezvous store in downtown Cleveland.
Klutch Cannabis, the medical dispensary based in Akron, is identified as the first-floor tenant of the landmark at 300 Prospect Ave., according to plans filed with the city of Cleveland.
Plans filed for the Thursday, April 18, meeting of the Downtown/Flats Design Review Meeting show the proposed marijuana dispensary and a sign with the Klutch Cannabis logo on the property.
The designs were filed by MPG Architects of Fairlawn for what it described as the first of two phases for the proposed project. The dispensary would be on the first floor, with offices for the operation on the building’s second floor. A future phase would include a total of four apartments on the third and fourth floors of the 1908 vintage structure.
Readying the long-empty storefront for the dispensary also will require renovating the structure’s storefront.
Pete Nischt, vice president for compliance and communications for Akron-based Klutch, declined comment.
The dispensary likely has