The 4/20 opening on Songhees land will be the first of three retail outlets for the nation.
Crews are preparing two other cannabis stores downtown — in Bay Centre on Fort Street and at 901 Gordon St.
Those stores will be branded as Seed and Stone, and Seed and Stone Songhees Edition, and operated with partner Vikram Sachdeva, who owns several Subway sandwich stores and has a licensed cannabis store in Chilliwack with other locations under development on the Lower Mainland.
Christina Clarke, corporate executive officer of the Songhees Development Corporation, said the nation is awaiting final licensing approvals from the province on the downtown stores.