MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES

With the advent of the medical marijuana industry in Pennsylvania CDA helped Cure PA analyze potential dispensary and growing sites across the Commonwealth (Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and Wilkes-Barre to Chambersburg) and then prepared concept designs to support their applications for licenses from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. In 2017 Cure PA was awarded 3 dispensary licenses with fast track fit-out renovations in Lancaster and Phoenixville opening for business in Spring 2018.

The Lancaster Dispensary was the first Cure PA dispensary to open. The design is driven by state regulations and security concerns but also a desire to create a welcoming, warm, and attractive setting for patients to select and receive medical marijuana products. The facility is roughly equally divided between public/patient space and secure/staff space. The Lancaster Dispensary has seen lines for product since opening its doors with patients regularly packing the Waiting Room validating the desire to create an attractive and comfortable front of house space. The flow of product from a fenced loading area to a vault and ultimately to the patients at the point of sale drove the design of the back of house space. Concern for the staff experience resulted in the use of similar finishes throughout the dispensary but security concerns prevent us from photographing the staff areas.