While business boomed in those early days, Cullen said it didn’t necessarily mean he could expand right away. “In other buildings, we don’t have that choice,” he said.ĬHC was one of the first recreational marijuana shops to open in Denver when that city approved the initial wave of stores in early 2014. The unique thing about the situation, Cullen said, is that unlike most shop owners wo rent and have no control over who moves in, CHC has the chance to choose who their neighbors will be. A take-and-bake pizza shop would be a good fit, too, he said. He’s also been in touch with hydroponic stores and a hemp jewelry and clothing company. The obvious choice for a tenant is a head shop, and Cullen said he has spoken to a few. Right next to CHC sits about 4,300 square feet of wide open and recently upgraded space that Cullen is hoping to rent out and convert into as many as three separate store fronts. “There are businesses that, in my mind, play off of what we are doing here,” he said during an interview on a leather chair at the company’s well-adorned Aurora shop. Now, having pumped about $700,000 into improvements at his building near East Yale Avenue and Parker Road - which is already home to one of CHC’s three locations - Cullen is looking for tenants for what he hopes will be a sort of “cannabis business district.” was a better option than renting elsewhere in Aurora when the company looked to expand eastward from Denver. Thanks to a few of the many complications Colorado’s recreational marijuana industry faces - including a lack of banking options and often onerous zoning rules - Cullen said buying the building at 11002 E. “Never in my wildest dreams did we intend to own a strip mall in Aurora, it just wasn’t on my radar at all,” Cullen, the CEO of Colorado Harvest Company, said with a chuckle.
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