James E. Wagner Cultivation Corporation plans to open a 2,000 sf. farm-gate retail store adjoining its 340,000 sf. cultivation facility located at 530 Manitou Drive in Kitchener, Ontario. As JWC scales toward full production capacity, it plans to expand from the Canadian medical to recreational markets in the first calendar quarter of 2020 through a number of marketing and distribution channels. The farm-gate store will represent a new direct-to-consumer outlet for the company, with its recently announced brokerage agreement with Kindred Partners providing a new sales channel for distribution through licensed third-party retailers. JWC Farm-gate is expected to be the Waterloo Region’s first retail cannabis store located on a licensed cultivation site. The store will offer the region’s more than 500,000 inhabitants the full line of JWC cannabis and derivative products for medical and legal-age recreational users, including the company’s recently announced new strains. The opening of the story will involve furnishing an existing attached building to the main facility, which is located on one of the most trafficked intersections in Kitchener. The opportunity for the farm-gate store arose from the recently enacted amendments to provincial legislation governing the cannabis retail market. On November 6, 2019, the provincial government released its 2019 Ontario Economic Outlook and Fiscal Review which announced key updates regarding how it will open the market for cannabis retail. The revised legislation allows licensed producers to establish retail stores on their production sites.