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NORMAL — Bloomington-Normal residents will have the opportunity to buy medical marijuana close to home as soon as this spring.

The Green Solution, a Denver, Colo.-based marijuana developer and retailer, is "expecting to be open by the third week of April" at 501 Northtown Road in Normal, said Vice President of Local Expansion Tanya Griffin.

"We’re going to start building out that site immediately," Griffin said of the former Curves building in north Normal. “We just got through permitting.”

The company bought the half-acre lot in October, according to property records. Griffin declined to talk about the purchase price.

TGS Illinois Inc., a subsidiary of the Colorado company, received the only retail dispensary license in Illinois' sixth state police district when licenses were awarded in 2014. The district stretches from Pontiac to the Twin Cities.

TGS will also open a store in Sauget, a St. Louis suburb, next month, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

When asked how many people will work at the Normal store, Griffin said employee count "will scale” with demand and include local hires.