ABOVE: Parkway Dispensaries Group CEO Ambrose Jackson speaks to Danville City Council prior to January 17th vote.
A ground-breaking is scheduled for this Thursday afternoon (March 23rd), right near True Grit Fitness on Georgetown Road in Tilton, for a planned cannabis dispensary and consumption lounge. And the name should ring a bell. It was back on January 17th that the Danville City Council, by one vote, turned down clearance for a possible third dispensary within the city of Danville. Parkway Dispensaries Group, and CEO Ambrose Jackson, wanted to put to work in Danville a social equity cannabis dispensary license they had received from the state. The location would have been just down the road from the current Sunnyside Recreational Cannabis Dispensary; just off Lynch Road, and along a proposed extension of Lynch Drive.
Marshall Lionti, from an investment development company working with Parkway Dispensaries, says Jackson and Parkway contacted Tilton shortly afterwards and began seeing if it would work there. Lionti says they were received positively.
AUDIO: Quite frankly, they’re really excited for the potential of having the dispensary as well as the consumption lounge developed. We’re looking forward to the increased activity in the area. We want to offer a local solution for cannabis for residents who don’t want to make their way all the way over to Champaign or Danville. We feel our location here in Tilton is going to be premier.
While Sunnyside continues to operate in Danville on the east side of Lynch Road, plans remain for Seven Point of Illinois to open a dispensary already approved on the west side of Lynch Road, not far from the soon to open Golden Nugget Casino. One interesting point is that Seven Point CEO Brad Zerman had asked the Danville City Council for a consumption lounge to be added to the plans, and was turned down. But Lionti says a consumption lounge, and other things, are already planned for what Parkway intends to do along Georgetown Road in Tilton.
AUDIO: We already have worked with the mayor and the village manager. They’re given us zoning approval for not only the dispensary; but as well a consumption lounge. We’re also going to have food, beer, wine, gaming; it’s going to be quite a time down there.
Thursday afternoon’s groundbreaking is scheduled for 2 PM.
