Are you afraid of residential towers? Here is another kind of “skyscraper.”
If you’ve been wondering about the new building rising up at Honeycutt Avenue and John Wayne Parkway, we have the answer for you: It’s Maricopa’s first cannabis dispensary. (We haven’t forgotten the dispensary that used to be on Papago Road, but that’s outside the city limits.)
The future pot shop is the first building to be constructed adjacent to the commercial area that will eventually house a Lowe’s home improvement store. An Aldi supermarket and several other unspecified retail stores are also planned for the Southbridge Marketplace shopping center.
The pot shop, which is not part of Southbridge Marketplace, will be located directly across from the extension of Honeycutt Avenue, west of the future Lowe’s parking lot at the mall, where Global Water Resources is installing water and wastewater infrastructure.
City planners gave the green light in June to the cannabis store, which will be called Nirvana. Nirvana Center Dispensaries is a subsidiary of Trulieve Cannabis Corporation.
City spokeswoman Monica Williams confirmed today that the pharmacy is under construction and called it “the Trulieve building.”
Trulieve operates a 700,000-square-foot cannabis cultivation facility in Phoenix that supplies part of its 21 Arizona dispensaries. Maricopa’s Nirvana will be store No. 22.