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Prospective cannabis retailer seeks host-community agreement; city solicitor says social-equity policy work under way, item tabled
Summary
A family-run cannabis company seeking a host-community agreement for a retail-and-manufacturing site at 301 Herman Melville Blvd. told New Bedford’s Committee on Appointments and Briefings on Feb. 18 that its application has been pending since 2023; the committee received the filing and tabled further action after the city solicitor described ongoing social-equity policy work.
Shamar James, chief executive of a family-run company called TH Connect LLC doing business as House of Diesel, appeared Feb. 18 before New Bedford’s Committee on Appointments and Briefings to request a host-community agreement (HCA) for a proposed co-located adult-use marijuana retail and product-manufacturing operation at 301 Herman Melville Boulevard.
James said his group filed the application in February 2023 and completed the city’s outreach steps, but that the city had not completed the administrative step of accepting the application fee and moving it forward. "We followed the guidance stated on the website," James told the committee. "We put together our…
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