As Promised Holdings LLC would demolish a vacant warehouse and build a two-story facility, according to its application to the Camden zoning board, which is scheduled to hear testimony on it next Monday in City Hall at its 5:30 p.m. meeting.
A variance is sought to open the cannabis cultivation business on the site in the city's Transit Oriented Zone, which does not permit cannabis cultivation. Two other zones in Camden permit cannabis cultivation businesses.
As Promised would invest $12 million in building the facility and employ an estimated 75 people, the firm's chief operating officer, Tony Payton Jr., told TAPinto Camden in a telephone interview on Tuesday. One attraction, he said, was the abundance of workers in Camden.
"Camden's a great place to be," said Payton, who served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2006 to 2012 as a Democrat representing part of Philadelphia. He now is a partner in a public affairs and lobbying firm.