Friday, April 30, 2010
Marijuana
Wal-Mart of Weed Not Moving into Scharffen Berger Building
Posted
By Matt Smith
on Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:54 PM
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Not in my neighborhood you don't
A Berkeley developer has halted plans for a major West Berkeley marijuana retail outlet by buying the
Scharffen Berger Chocolate building at 914 Heinz Ave., where the Berkeley Patients Group had planned to move, the
Oakland Tribune reports.Wareham Development had threatened to sue to halt plans to move a pot club into the building, based on the fears marijuana sales would make nearby buildings the company owns less attractive to prospective tenants. A French immersion school in the neighborhood had also threatened to sue.
But it took actually purchasing the building to keep the
dope fiends away.
A spokeswoman for the nearby Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley said she'd like the city of Berkeley to make it possible for organizations such as hers to keep away pot sales operations without drastic measures such as the one taken by Wareham.
"In the long term, we would like to see the city of Berkeley clarify their ordinances to protect all children," Jennifer Monahan said.
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