Boston’s first recreational pot shop has cleared its last big local permitting hurdle and its owners are hoping — if the state plays ball — to open up by early March.

“I just hope we can break through,” said Kobie Evans, one of the owners of the soon-to-open Pure Oasis. “It’s been tough at times.”

The pot shop at 430 Blue Hill Ave. not only would be the first recreational marijuana shop in the city, but the first one to open up by “economic empowerment” candidates — companies where minorities make up more than half of the owners and staff or meet certain other criteria.

The company owned by Evans and his business partner Kevin Hart — both black Bostonians — received its certificate of occupancy last week to open, according to the city. That’s the last big local hurdle to clear, meaning that final approval from the state is next. Evans said he’s hoping to be on the Cannabis Control Commission’s February agenda, but no further information was available about that as of Tuesday.

“We just submit all of our paperwork and wait,” Evans said, adding that if the CCC — which has taken heat of late for its slowness and lack of economic empowerment candidates approved — moves on the matter, they would hope to open their doors by early March.

Mayor Martin Walsh said in a statement, “Pure Oasis will be Massachusetts’ first Economic Empowerment Candidate to open, and I look forward to their business opening as Boston continues to prioritize equity, and support diverse and local ownership in this new industry. Congratulations to Kobie and Kevin on their hard work and the upcoming opening of Pure Oasis.”

Boston has 14 host community agreements with prospective pot operators, and two medical dispensaries open. Three of the 14 are economic-empowerment candidates.

Walsh in November signed a law change that created a new pot licensing board, but Walsh hasn’t yet appointed anyone to it. The mayor’s office said Walsh expects to have more details in the coming weeks.

A spokesman for City Council President Kim Janey, who spearheaded the changes around the pot law last year, said Janey’s expecting the mayor’s appointees in that timeframe.

The pot ordinance was meant to further boost people of color, especially established Boston residents, and people who have been locked up for selling marijuana when it was illegal. The new law also will create a fund to help companies run by such candidates start up.