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King City Gardens Budgets Over 2 Million Dollars for Two Dispensaries
Local 12 carried a July 10, 2025 Cincinnati Business Courier report on King City Gardens' retail plan: two Hamilton County dispensaries first, and about 10 million dollars across six Ohio sites.
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How much did King City Gardens budget for its first Cincinnati dispensaries?
King City Gardens set aside more than 2 million dollars for two dispensaries in Hamilton County, one in Camp Washington and one in Sycamore Township, according to a July 10, 2025 Cincinnati Business Courier story carried by Local 12. The plan reached about 10 million dollars across six Ohio sites.
Local 12: Business Courier report on King City Gardens' two-dispensary retail budget
Local 12 carried the first Cincinnati press report on King City Gardens as a retailer. Liz Engel of the Business Courier laid out the plan: two dispensaries first, in Camp Washington and Sycamore Township, expected to open within weeks.
The Courier described the Forest Park building as the only indoor cannabis farm in the region, and a photo caption traced the whole run, with cannabis grown, harvested, tested, packaged and shipped from the same site.
The budget behind the plan was more than 2 million dollars for those first two Hamilton County stores, and about 10 million dollars for six stores across Ohio.
Retail budget facts from the Local 12 and Business Courier report
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King City Gardens planned its first two Hamilton County stores for Camp Washington and Sycamore Township.
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About 10 million dollars was budgeted for six Ohio dispensaries in all, the Courier reported.
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Per a Courier caption, King City Gardens grows, harvests, tests, packages and ships its cannabis from one Forest Park site.
King City Gardens' July 2025 dispensary plan in figures: stores and dollars
- stores first, in Hamilton County
- 2stores first, in Hamilton County
- dollars for those two
- 2M+dollars for those two
- stores in the long plan, about 10 million dollars
- 6stores in the long plan, about 10 million dollars
As reported by the Cincinnati Business Courier and carried by Local 12 on July 10, 2025.

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