The ones that decided to permit cannabis-related businesses, including Hamilton Township, Atlantic City, Egg Harbor City, West Cape May and Lower Township, are hearing from companies interested in setting up operations within their towns.
The state has created recreational cannabis business license categories that include cultivator, manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, retailer and deliverer.
Hamilton Township has been inundated with calls from cultivation or growing cannabis-related businesses interested in establishing themselves in the township’s 690-acre Hamilton Business Park, said Erin Crean, the township’s director of community development.
The business park already includes Pepsi and Stroehmann Bakeries distributorships, the Atlantic County Court House and Justice facility, the Atlantic County Institute of Technology and a road test location for the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
The township’s Industrial Commission met Wednesday night and awarded two contracts for two different lots inside the business park, Crean said. The commission also accepted a letter of intent for a third company within the business park, she said.
Crean said she could not say whether these three businesses are involved with recreational cannabis operations because of confidentiality.