On the same day Governor Pritzker announced that Illinois dispensaries sold more than $2 billion worth of cannabis products in 2024, Danville’s Seven Point of Illinois dispensary received unanimous approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission for a consumption lounge at their site along the west side of Lynch Road. As CEO Brad Zerman told CIMG earlier this week; anyone using the lounge would have to be 21 or over, just like required to enter the store; and they would only be able to consume products purchased from Seven Point in the lounge.
Zerman said after the vote that Seven Point’s efforts to bring City Council and Planning & Zoning Commission members to the store to show what they have in mind certainly paid off; and provided education about their products.
Audio PlayerAUDIO: You know we showed them all the education; how you can pick up products and learn about them. And they really appreciated that, and just the extra knowledge that my partner Amy Lee has about the science of it; we talked about that; and all the tours and how the products work. You don’t have to smoke or even get high to reek the benefits from cannabis.
(1st Picture) Seven Point CEO Brad Zerman explains company’s future plans. (2nd Picture) Seven Point team prepares to take turns speaking. (3rd Picture) Seven Point of Illinois team leader Pedro Linares describes consumption lounge benefits.
Zerman explained during the meeting and afterwards the plans to bring in food trucks, special events; and also educational career opportunities for those interested.
Audio PlayerAUDIO: Right now we’re starting an incubator; where we’re going to recruit people, even from local churches, for jobs; that can learn the business of cannabis that they’re 21 and over. And, with the food truck; it would be possible to even have younger kids working the food truck for jobs.
Danville Community Development Administrator Logan Cronk explained after the meeting that Seven Point’s proposal will come before the full City Council on February 18th. But before that, on the 11th, the actual zoning change that would allow a consumption lounge in the first place must come before the Public Works Committee. Also coming before Public Works next Tuesday (February 11th) will be the other item that was on Thursday’s (Feb 6th) Planning and Zoning agenda. The commission approved a motion to make rules for future proposed solar energy systems more uniform; such as having setbacks from roads always at 50 feet, and setbacks from residential properties always at 150 feet.
