Bay City News
The Antioch City Council last week approved operating agreements that will turn a defunct Kmart and a former dance studio into cannabis operations.
In two separate votes, the council voted 3-1 each time, with Councilmember Lori Ogorchock opposed and Councilmember Michael Barbanica absent, to approve the operating agreements with two cannabis businesses, ANT Green LLC and OTC Antioch LLC.
During the Aug. 13 meeting, Mayor Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe explained that cannabis business use permits for each had already been approved in previous years, but the city needed to additionally approve operating agreements.
With its operating agreement approved, ANT Green will go forward with opening its business at 3625 E. 18th St., where Kmart shuttered in 2018. The approval of the operating agreement comes a little more than three years after ANT Green’s cannabis permit was approved by the city in 2021. Business operations will include cultivation, manufacturing, retail and distribution.