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Niles Dispensary To ‘Rise’ This Summer

By Tom Robb
on January 07, 2020

https://www.journal-topics.com/articles/niles-dispensary-to-rise-this-summer/

I know this location. It's at Golf Rd and N. Milwaukee Ave right by my cousin's house It's very densely populated around there with heavy vehicular traffic. - FUNMAN

Niles development department officials have given conditional approval for a recreational marijuana dispensary to open in the village, likely by mid-summer.

The dispensary would be called Rise, located at 9621 N. Milwaukee Ave. in the former Pearle Vision Center.

Rise would be operated by Green Thumb Industries through 3C Compassionate Care Centers, a limited liability corporation. Village officials said Green Thumb operates 96 retail locations nationwide, operating as Rise and Essence, including an existing Rise medical marijuana dispensary in Naperville.

The location in the 9600 block of Milwaukee is in the northwest recreational marijuana zoning district Niles trustees approved late last year. The other zone is located at the far southeast end of the village. Each zone is limited to one dispensary each.

The way the zoning was established, recreational marijuana dispensaries do not require village board approval, but are approved administratively by the community development department.

The nearest operating dispensary to Niles is Zen Leaf located in the 6400 block of Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, only a few blocks from Niles’ southern border.