Fidi will get a legal cannabis store next year
Community Board 1’s executive committee approved a cannabis shop for 35 Wall, mid-block between William and Broad/Nassau, which should open in the second quarter of 2024. More on that below, but also, the applicant for 161 Hudson, at Laight, was denied since the landlord called the board to say he was not granting them a lease since he was negotiating with a *different* cannabis dispensary. That applicant will come before CB1 in December.
The applicant for 35 Wall, which is across from the Trump Building at 40 Wall, said he will be operating a “high-end” shop with no deliveries, no consumption and no events. (When asked what he meant by high end, he couldn’t answer other than to confirm that there will *not* be artificial turf running up the walls.)
Dispensaries are allowed to operate from 9a to 2a daily by the state’s Office of Cannabis Management rules, but community boards can limit their hours to a total of 70 a week. So the applicant and the committee agreed to 10a to 9p daily, for now.
Originally there were 23 applicants at