Gro Blue is still listed on Beehive Plaza’s monument sign, but Gigi Bennett’s hydroponic gardening store, which made no bones about its mission to serve licensed marijuana caregivers, seems to have shut down or at least retreated to a private address. The website survives, and so does the phone–but the site still claims the Packard Rd. address, and the voicemail goes to a generic greeting; a voice message and an email got no response.
Marvin Ford, manager of Marco’s Pizza next door can date the exit to September: “I was just starting and they were packing up.” For now, the space is feelin’ the Bern–it’s the local headquarters for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.
