MACHESNEY PARK — A locally owned cannabis dispensary is shaping plans to open its second location, and it could feature the area’s first on-site consumption space.
Lyfe Dispensary, which opened in November 2023 at 6774 Troy Drive in Rockford, plans to build its second dispensary on vacant land at 7600 West Lane Road near the Interstate 90 interchange in Machesney Park.
Those plans took a step forward Monday night, when the village’s Planning and Economic Development Committee approved a variance that would allow for on-site consumption in conjunction with an event space at the dispensary…