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King City Gardens Explains Why It Chose Mansfield, Ohio for Retail

Richland Source reported on November 18, 2025 how King City Gardens co-founder Caveh Azadeh turned one Level I grow license into six dispensary licenses and chose Mansfield.

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November 18, 2025

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Cincinnati-based cannabis business sees Mansfield as natural next step for retail

Street view of The Garden in Camp Washington, a white building striped in green, with the crowned G sign standing on the grass

Photo: The Garden

Richland Source: Caveh Azadeh on six store licenses, Mansfield traffic and competition

Richland Source reported that Caveh Azadeh came to cannabis from mortgage sales and other businesses. When Ohio approved medical cannabis, he and partners applied, were turned down, kept going, and secured a Level I license in 2021.

He said the license allowed up to 25,000 square feet of growing and carried three dispensary licenses, and King City Gardens bought three more. He described Mansfield as sitting between Columbus and Cleveland, with traffic from towns that ban dispensaries.

“We felt that Mansfield checked all those boxes”
Caveh Azadeh, Co-founder, King City Gardens

Azadeh welcomed a competitor ten minutes away. He measured convenience in sales: roughly three in ten Camp Washington sales went out the drive-thru window.

How one grow license became six Ohio dispensary licenses

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King City Gardens holds six dispensary licenses: three came with the Level I grow license and three were bought.
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Azadeh said Mansfield draws shoppers from surrounding towns that ban dispensaries.
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About 30 percent of Camp Washington sales used the drive-thru in late 2025, he told Richland Source.

By the numbers

King City Gardens dispensary license math and Camp Washington drive-thru share

store licenses with the Level I grow license: 3store licenses with the Level I grow license
bought: +3bought
of Camp Washington sales at the drive-thru: 30%of Camp Washington sales at the drive-thru

As Caveh Azadeh told Richland Source for its November 18, 2025 story.