The would-be operator of a proposed medical marijuana dispensary in Riverside is also seeking a license and to cultivate and process the drug at a site in this rural township.
Moorestown attorney Christopher Baxter and his new business, Bailey Farm LLC, is seeking approval from the Springfield Township Planning Board to build a 30,000-square-foot greenhouse and 8,000-square foot processing building on a 33-acre tract of land off Juliustown Road.
The Planning Board is scheduled to consider the company’s application for a minor subdivision and site plan for the proposed cultivation and processing site on Aug. 20, according to a meeting notice published last week. Both buildings would be built on 11 acres of the 33-acre property, according to the company’s application.
The land was previously used as a gravel mine and more recently a hay farm, according to the application. It also specifies that the proposed buildings would have state-of-the-art security equipment, including digital surveillance cameras, and will be guarded by armed off-duty police officers 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
Baxter and his company have already received approval from Riverside’s Planning Board to open a medical marijuana dispensary in a vacant bank building on Scott Street in the town’s downtown business district.
Both the growing and processing and dispensing operations are contingent on Bailey Farm obtaining licenses for both from the state Department of Health.