The township council will hear a proposal on Oct. 16 for a medical marijuana facility to operate just down the street from its municipal complex and police station.
Parea BioSciences of New Jersey, Inc., wants to build a 137,000-square-foot facility on a 25-acre parcel on Barker Avenue, near Route 130.
The state Department of Health is reviewing 51 applications for two more alternative treatment centers in South Jersey. The department expects to approve six new licenses in November.
If its license application is approved by the state, Parea hopes to build an indoor cannabis cultivation facility with an adjoining 10,000-square-foot greenhouse, a manufacturing and processing plant and a dispensary. The dispensary would include business offices, security offices, a welcome room and consultation rooms.
The site has enough room for future expansion and multiple greenhouses, according to the company's five-page proposal to the township council.