Former fast-food restaurant being turned into cannabis retail store
MEDICINE HAT, AB — A former fast food restaurant is currently being converted into a cannabis retail location.
The John’s Texas Chicken restaurant on Trans-Canada Way which was formerly an Arby’s restaurant, closed on August 30th. The windows of the building are covered, and restaurant seating and food equipment can be seen outside in the back of the restaurant. A sign on the door of the restaurant says the restaurant is closing permanently to become a cannabis retail store.
CHAT News reached out to John Nickle, who owns the building and leases it for business owners. He says New Leaf Cannabis will be leasing the building to develop a retail cannabis operation, a fact the company confirmed Tuesday afternoon.