GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- The first provisioning center to sell medical marijuana in Grand Rapids has opened.

The grand opening Friday morning, Feb. 7, at Fluresh Provisioning Center was greeted by a line of more than 60 people.

Because the 1213 Phillips Ave. shop is a medical marijuana provisioning center, only patients with medical marijuana licenses can purchase the product.

Grand Rapids likely won’t accept applications for recreational marijuana dispensaries and facilities until April 20.

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According to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Fluresh is the only licensed medical marijuana provisioning center in the city as of this week.

The Grand Rapids Planning Commission began reviewing applications for medical marijuana facilities in May 2019. So far, the commission has approved plans for 24 of them.

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The Phillips Avenue location will additionally house Fluresh’s headquarters as well as a grow operation that is in the same building but separate from the headquarters and provisioning center.

All three operations will translate to about 100 employees, Fluresh officials previously said. The company hopes also to process marijuana there and transition to recreational marijuana once the city allows.

The grow space has up to 58,000 square feet of medical marijuana growing area will be the second growing operation Fluresh has in Michigan.

Fluresh’s other medical marijuana growing operation is in Adrian. That facility, which also processes medical marijuana, is licensed to grow up to 7,500 plants.

Fluresh officials previously told MLive they want the company to be known for having high-quality marijuana. Apart from a few dispensaries around the state, growing and wholesale product selling will be the company’s focus.

“We want to be able to bring a product to the market that people will ask for by name,” Fluresh CEO Leah Bailey previously told MLive. "Not that, ‘I want some cannabis,' but ‘I want some Fluresh.’”

Regular hours at the Phillips Avenue provisioning center will be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday.

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