Danbury gets its first pitch for recreational weed business

DANBURY — Once the site of an equipment rental company, the white pill box building on the property at 108 Federal Road today sits quietly surrounded by chain-link fencing.

But its dormant status may change in the coming months if the owners of a newly established adult-use retail cannabis business successfully secure a preliminary license from the state that would allow the firm to sell marijuana to recreational customers.

Carl Tirella, co-founder of BUDR Hartford Holding LLC, said the entity successfully secured one of the first Equity Joint Venture retail licenses issued by the state, with plans to begin sales from its prospective location in Danbury early next year. The business is seeking zoning approvals from city’s Planning Commission, which will hold a public hearing on the matter on Nov. 2.

“We were targeting the Danbury area and we were able to find a building that was consistent with the regulations that were just approved and we applied as of last week, submitted all the documents and we were given our provisional certificate (Monday) and submitted that to the city and then we’re on (to) the hearing and will hopefully be approved Nov. 2,” Tirella said Tuesday.

Under the state’s recreational marijuana statute, the Equity Joint Venture applicant must partner with a licensed producer, a “Disproportionately Impacted Area” cultivator, or an existing dispensary facility, and must be at least 50 percent owned and controlled by an individual, or individuals who “had an average household income of less than 300 percent of, or three times, the state median household income over the last three tax years.”

The social equity partner must also show they were either “a resident of a disproportionately impacted area for at least five of the last 10 years,” or “a resident of a disproportionately impacted areas for at least nine years” before they turned 18.

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