Marijuana distributor’s website listed Fairview Heights address as dispensary site
A marijuana distributor that has a pot dispensary in Collinsville has said it wants to open a dispensary in Fairview Heights at an undisclosed location. And, for at least a week, the Illinois Supply and Provisions’ website had listed an apparent site for a dispensary along Interstate 64.
The information about a dispensary at 455 Salem Place was not listed on the company’s website as of late Friday morning. For at least the previous week, however, the website for Illinois Supply and Provisions said it would have a store “opening soon” in Fairview Heights.
Just above that information was a box listing the Salem Place address, which was formerly a piano store. There also was a locator a map posted that had a red pin drop and a link that provided directions to 455 Salem Place via Google Maps.
A spokesman for Illinois Supply and Provisions could not be reached for comment about the Fairview Heights location listed on the company’s website.
Illinois Supply and Provisions, which previously was known as HCI Alternatives, has announced it will open a recreational marijuana dispensary at 1014 Eastport Plaza in Collinsville on Jan. 1, when it will be legal for approved dispensaries to sell recreational marijuana in Illinois.
The Collinsville site already sells medical marijuana, as does The Green Solution at 2021 Goose Lake Road in Sauget.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law in June that allows the metro-east to have four recreational weed dispensaries. So far, the Collinsville site is the only one approved to open in the metro-east for recreational cannabis sales.
St. Clair County property records show that the building at 455 Salem Place in Fairview Heights is owned by William C. Boyce Jr. and Sandra Boyce of Bradenton, Fla. They could not be reached for comment.
BarberMurphy, a commercial real estate company, has listed the 1.35 acre site at 455 Salem Place on its website for the “reduced” sales price of $1.399 million or lease at $9.50 per square foot. The site is described as a “high visibility location with interstate visibility” and that the building has 18,000 square feet and a warehouse has 2,800 square feet.
The listing agent for BarberMurphy could not be reached for comment. Fairview Heights Mayor Mark Kupsky also did not return calls for comment.
Fairview Heights zoning
The Fairview Heights City Council on Dec. 17 voted 7-3 to allow a recreational marijuana sales in the city but that was just for general permission, not for a specific business site.
The next step for Fairview Heights is to approve zoning code changes that would establish where a marijuana dispensary could be located, according to Andrea Riganti, director of Land Use and Development Department for the city. She said this process could take up to three months.
Riganti said she was not aware of the Illinois Supply and Provisions website that had information about the 455 Salem Place site.
The current zoning for the vacant building at 455 Salem Place is “planned business,” Riganti said.
The 455 Salem Place building is one-third of a mile from the Planned Parenthood site that opened in October at 317 Salem Place.
Planned Parenthood executives have said it used a shell company to keep its plans secret in Fairview Heights before the office actually opened for abortion services. They were not required to go before the city’s zoning board because the site was already zoned for a medical office.
