It seemed appropriate, as one board member remarked heading to the parking lot after adjournment, that the two applicants who appeared before the Plainfield Planning Board Thursday did so on April 20, or 420. The board voted in favor of preliminary and final site plan approval for both a cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility, as well as a retail location on South Avenue near Terrill Road.
The cultivation facility will be located at 1309-1645 West Front Street, encompassing over 130,000 sq. feet.
"Cannabis is a lot like child care. And the cultivation facility that we're setting up is set up in a way that allows us to support each phase of the development of this child, or cannabis," Richard Fryling, one of the founders of Clade9 New Jersey, said.
"So it all starts as every healthy family does, with the moms. So we actually have a mom room — this is where all the genetics are," Fryling added. . "Our number one goal is to make sure the child that we raise, the cultivation of the plant that we raise, goes out into the world reaching its fullest potential and making the people that receive it happy."