Monday, August 17, 2015

New East 14th Street retail space already gone to pot



There's news about the new retail tenant at 212 E. 14th St., a building that is coming off a two-year gut renovation with one-floor extension here just east of Third Avenue.

Columbia Care NY signed a lease to occupy 3,500 square feet here, as The Real Deal reported. Columbia Care is one of the five companies selected to run medical marijuana dispensaries in New York.

However, this won't be like buying a bag of weed from [redacted], who you can always find selling over by the [redacted].

DNAinfo had the guidelines about buying marijuana from one of 20 dispensaries set to open in New York:

• So far, the medical conditions approved for marijuana prescriptions are limited to cancer, HIV/AIDS, ALS, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord tissue damage, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies and Huntington's disease. The Department of Health can add medical conditions to this list as it sees fit.

• To register as a patient eligible to purchase marijuana, you'll need to get certification from your doctor demonstrating your medical need and detailing your prescription. You'll also have to be a New York resident, or a patient receiving treatment in the state.

• You won't be smoking the pot you buy. Dispensaries will sell no larger than 30-day supplies of marijuana in the form of oils, pills, or tinctures.

This East 14th Street location is not expected to open until after Jan. 1.

The Real Deal noted that Columbia Care, who's paying $140 per square foot, signed a five-year deal with a five-year renewal option.

The storefront was most recently the Super Saving Store, which closed in June 2011.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Residential, retail and an additional floor for 212 E. 14th St.

Full exposure at 212 E. 14th St.

11 comments:

  1. Shame Pope Mickey is not able to run these

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  2. I am a gay man living with HIV in the East Village. We definitely needs places like this to help mitigate the affects of medication and fatigue. I wish 420 wasn't an issue in NYC. In California, those with illnesses, can walk into any medical 420 store, with a script and receive a certain ounce of the real thing. NY state needs to get with the program. Pills and oils are just lame.

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  3. How lame that you can't just smoke the stuff.

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  4. Hate to be semantics guy but the word marijuana popularly refers to the smokable flowers of the cannabis plant.

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  5. I've got chronic back pain and need it..not on the list for suitable conditions..Smoke is way better than oils, edabiles...

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  6. I thought this was where Dunkin Donuts was going to move? I guess they're staying where they are?

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  7. @ 1:50

    DD is moving to 208 E. 14th St. ... 2 storefronts to the west... next to ChickPea

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  8. Thanks re: Dunkin update, Grieve!

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  9. Inflammatory bowel disease? Easily induced.

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  10. I don't think bud is more dangerous than booze.

    Also visit my page: online Seed bank

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