Moorestown Township will vote on whether to allow a recreational marijuana dispensary to lease a building in a nearly vacant lot where a police station and municipal court reside.
The township owns the Moorestown West Corporate Center and last summer passed an ordinance to open bidding for a cannabis retailer to lease a suite there.
"Miles of Green," a recreational marijuana dispensary, submitted the winning bid to lease the space for $5,200 a month.
Some residents like the idea of the dispensary bringing tax revenue to the township.
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“If it’s legal, why would it affect the police department? They need to be funded too, maybe it’ll help them,” Hawa Fuseini, a resident in the area, said with a laugh.
The dispensary would be located along Church Street, which is an almost completely commercial road with a lot that has multiple suites inside.
The lot is currently nearly vacant, except for the Moorestown Police Department in suite 2, the municipal court in suite 4 and a lighting manufacturer in suite 12.
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"Miles of Green" could potentially occupy suite 9, which is a short distance from the police station.
“It’s not illegal so I feel like it could be anywhere. Maybe not next to an elementary school but,” Jerrold Crowley, a resident in the area, said.
Details of the dispensary moving to Moorestown will be discussed in a planning board meeting Thursday night at 7 p.m. According to township documents, the dispensary would have customers come in through a lobby where security checks IDs.
“It will actually be more convenient than the place I go to now inside the Moorestown mall. Like two people go there now, it’s a loss. So it’d be more convenient,” Crowley said.
NBC10 asked police and court employees what their thoughts were, they said they couldn’t weigh in publicly.
