The owners of Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care have proposed building a medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation facility at the Adamston Road property.
Under the plans, the bank building would be converted into the "patient services center," the actual medical marijuana dispensary where patients could purchase the drug.
The group has also proposed building a new 48,000-square-foot cultivation center, where cannabis could grow.
To move forward, they need approval from both the state Department of Health, which is issuing six new medical marijuana licenses, and the Brick zoning board.
"We felt this was a perfect location because the bank, as our patient services center, has a vault. It has handicapped areas. It has a well-lit parking lot," said Jersey Shore Therapeutic Health Care co-owner Anne Davis, a Brick attorney. "It's secure, it's discrete and we hope it will remain discrete."