Apartment towers giving you anxiety? Here’s a different kind of “high-rise.”
If you’ve been wondering about that new building going vertical off Honeycutt Avenue and John Wayne Parkway, we’ve got your answer — it’s Maricopa’s first cannabis dispensary. (We didn’t forget about the one that used to be on Papago Road, but that’s not inside city limits.)
The future pot shop is the first structure to be built adjacent to the commercial development that will eventually house a Lowe’s Home Improvement store. An Aldi supermarket and several other unidentified retail establishments are also planned in the Southbridge Marketplace shopping center.
The pot shop, which is not part of the Southbridge Marketplace, will sit just across the extension of Honeycutt Avenue, west of Lowe’s future parking lot in the shopping center where Global Water Resources is installing water and sewer infrastructure.
City planners gave the weed store, which will be called Nirvana, the green light in June. Nirvana Center Dispensaries is a subsidiary of the Trulieve Cannabis Corporation.
City spokesperson Monica Williams today confirmed the dispensary was under construction, calling it “the Trulieve building.”
Trulieve has a 64,000-square-foot cannabis grow operation in Phoenix, which partly supplies its 21 dispensaries in Arizona. Maricopa’s Nirvana will be store No. 22.




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