The first goal of Union Chill Cannabis, a cannabis dispensary planned to open at the former Corning Leader building on W. Pulteney Street, is providing distribution services to people in the City of Corning and the surrounding areas.
“Delivery is the first thing we will be working on,” said owner Josh Canfield, who also owns Next Level Wellness, a CBD shop in Hornell. “We plan to get that up and going before we get our retail open.”
Canfield said Union Chill Cannabis is hopeful to meet with the City Planning Commission on Jan. 2, to receive site plan approval for the 12,000-square-foot building to convert the space into a dispensary.
“From all the previous meetings we’ve met all the requirements they’ve asked of us,” Canfield said. “The only thing that was holding us back at that point was the zoning law was not in place.”
City code amended to allow dispensary plans
The Corning City Council voted 5-4 in early December to amend a chapter of the city code, matching the New York State Office of Cannabis Management’s adult-use final regulations.
Under the state cannabis law, a cannabis facility may not be within 500 feet, on the same road, of the nearest entrance building or