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The building on Bank Street in Centretown that was once home to one of the city’s most popular illegal dispensaries may re-open this spring as a legal cannabis shop.

An Ontario pot-shop lottery winner has proposed opening a store called HOBO Recreational Cannabis Store at 391 Bank St. near Gladstone Avenue, the site of the former Cannabis Culture dispensary.

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The store location was posted Tuesday morning by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario for public comment.

Only 25 stores are set to open this spring as the province rolls out the first wave of privately-operated cannabis shops. The right to apply for the licences was decided in a lottery.

The HOBO shop proposal means Ottawa will probably land three of the five stores allocated for Eastern Ontario. A store called Superette has been proposed for Wellington Street West, and another called ByWard Market Cannabis, Fire & Flower, is proposed for York Street. Two stores have been proposed for Kingston.