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Superette, the company behind one of Ottawa’s first cannabis retail stores, announced plans Thursday to open a new Bank Street location.

The Glebe-area store at 852 Bank St. will be located in a new building at the corner of Bank Street and Fifth Avenue, across the street from McDonald’s.

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Superette opened its first Ottawa retail store on Wellington West on April 1, 2019, almost six months after Canada legalized recreational cannabis.

It was one of only three brick-and-mortar cannabis outlets in the national capital, and a handful across the province, that were permitted – and prepared – to open at that point. Initially, Ontario took a gradual, lottery-style approach to awarding cannabis retail licenses that has since been scrapped.

Superette said it plans to apply for retail store authorization in March, and hopes to have the Bank Street storefront open sometime in April or May.

Ottawa currently has four cannabis retail outlets: Superette and Tokyo Smoke on Wellington Street West, Hobo on Bank Street, and Fire & Flower on York Street in the ByWard Market.