The stores can begin selling cannabis as early as April 1.

Ottawa will be getting three cannabis stores sometime next month, as all three received their approval from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario last week.

All three stores — Superette, in Hintonburg; Hobo Recreational Cannabis Store on Bank Street; and Fire & Flower, in the Byward Market — were granted retail authorizations and operator licenses on Friday, clearing the way for their opening as early as April 1st. The stores will just need to go through pre-opening inspections by the AGCO before being able to sell any product.

Not much is known about the stores, all three of which went to relative newcomers to the cannabis industry in January’s lottery. All three have teamed up with larger companies to run the stores. Hobo Recreational Cannabis, for instance, has teamed up with the Donnelly Group, who run a number of bars and restaurants in Vancouver, to open the first of a planned line of Hobo cannabis stores. Fire & Flower, who have opened a number of stores in Alberta, are involved in the Byward Market. And the store in Hintonburg is being run with a company called Superette — a company founded by two ex-employees of Tokyo Smoke, a Toronto coffee shop chain that has long had an eye on the retail cannabis industry and that was purchased by pot giant Canopy Growth last year for over $250 million.

It’s not clear whether the stores will be ready to open on April 1st or not, though each store faces a financial penalty if they fail to do so. Job postings for these retail stores have been sporadically popping up, suggesting that some hiring has been done.