Branch County, Michigan
Coldwater, Michigan cannabis zoning, licensing and real estate
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Can you open a dispensary in Coldwater, Michigan?
Coldwater has opted in to adult-use cannabis establishments. The Michigan Treasury FY2025 distribution records 13 licensed retailers and microbusinesses and $702,222.30 in excise paid to the municipality. Confirm caps, buffers and district zoning with the city and the CRA before signing.
Coldwater has opted in to adult-use cannabis
Adult-use establishments are permitted by local ordinance. Whether the municipality is currently accepting new applicants is not verified — contact us to confirm current status.
- Adult-use detail
- UnverifiedNot verified — contact us to confirm current status
- Medical detail
- UnverifiedNot verified — contact us to confirm current status
- Accepting new applicants
- UnverifiedNot verified — contact us to confirm current status
Capacity
Licence caps and current count
- Local cap
- UnverifiedNot verified — contact us to confirm current status
- Accepting new applications
- Not verified — contact us to confirm current status
- FY2025 licensed retailers + microbusinesses
- 13
Distance requirements
Buffer and setback rules
UnverifiedNot verified — contact us to confirm current status
The state adult-use rule separately requires 1,000 feet from a pre-existing school, measured parcel line to parcel line, unless the municipality has adopted an ordinance reducing it. Local ordinances sometimes measure door to door instead — measure both ways before you commit. See how the buffer is measured.
Ordinance terms
Other local requirements
UnverifiedNot verified — contact us to confirm current status
Operating hours, permitted districts, co-location, insurance minimums, municipal fee caps and community-benefit conditions are local ordinance terms, not state licensing conditions. They are amended more often than setbacks and they move unit economics — confirm the current text before signing.
State programmes
Social equity and municipal revenue
- Social equity community
- Designated — qualifying applicants receive reduced state application and licensing fees. The designation does not change local zoning or ordinance status.
- FY2025 excise received
- $702,222.30
- Statewide context
- Michigan distributed $93,773,685.60 in FY2025 adult-use excise — $46,886,842.80 to municipalities and an equal amount to counties — across 868 licences in 238 municipalities, at $54,017.10 per licence.
This dataset covers 54 municipalities, selected for C3 CRE's active Michigan markets, out of the 238 municipalities that received an FY2025 adult-use excise distribution from the Michigan Department of Treasury. Michigan Treasury source.
Market read
Coldwater commercial real estate context
Coldwater is the Indiana border market, and its economics are almost entirely cross-border: roughly eight in ten customers come from Indiana, where there is no legal adult-use market. The density figure tells the story — Branch County has more than three dispensaries per 10,000 residents against Wayne County's 0.49. Thirteen licences in a city of Coldwater's size only makes sense as a regional draw on the I-69 corridor. Underwrite it as a border asset with the border risk priced in: Indiana legalisation is the single event that would reset every rent and every valuation here, so lease term, rent basis and exit assumptions should all be tested against it.
Inventory
C3 CRE inventory in Coldwater
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No current C3 inventory here — tell us what you're looking for. Off-market cultivation, processing and retail assets move through us regularly, and a specific brief in Coldwater is the fastest way to see them first.
Questions
Coldwater cannabis real estate questions
- Is cannabis legal to sell in Coldwater, Michigan?
- Yes. Coldwater has opted in to adult-use cannabis establishments.
- How many cannabis licences does Coldwater have?
- 13. The Michigan Treasury FY2025 adult-use excise distribution, reflecting licensed retailers and microbusinesses as of roughly 30 September 2025, records 13 licences in Coldwater, which produced $702,222.30 in excise distributed to the municipality at $54,017.10 per licence.
- Is there a cap on cannabis retailers in Coldwater?
- We have not verified a numeric cap for Coldwater. Not verified — contact us to confirm current status. Under MRTMA a municipality may limit the number of establishments by ordinance, so the absence of a verified figure here does not mean there is no cap.
- What are the buffer and setback rules in Coldwater?
- We have not verified Coldwater's local buffer and setback ordinance. Not verified — contact us to confirm current status. The state adult-use rule still applies: 1,000 feet from a pre-existing school, measured property line to property line, unless the municipality has adopted an ordinance reducing it.
- What other cannabis ordinance requirements does Coldwater impose?
- We have not verified additional local ordinance terms — operating hours, permitted districts, insurance, fee caps or co-location — for Coldwater. Not verified — contact us to confirm current status.
- Is Coldwater a social equity community?
- Yes. Coldwater is a state-designated social equity community, which reduces state application and licensing fees for qualifying applicants. The designation is a state fee programme — it does not change local zoning, caps or ordinance status.
- How much cannabis excise revenue did Coldwater receive in FY2025?
- $702,222.30. Michigan distributed $93,773,685.60 in adult-use excise for FY2025 — $46,886,842.80 to municipalities and an equal amount to counties — across 868 licences in 238 municipalities, at $54,017.10 per licence. This dataset covers 54 municipalities, selected for C3 CRE's active Michigan markets, out of the 238 municipalities that received an FY2025 adult-use excise distribution from the Michigan Department of Treasury.
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Other Branch County municipalities
Coldwater is the only Branch County jurisdiction we have published so far. The full index covers every municipality in the dataset.
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