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Madison Heights, Michigan cannabis zoning, licensing and real estate
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Can you open a dispensary in Madison Heights, Michigan?
Madison Heights has opted in to adult-use cannabis establishments. The Michigan Treasury FY2025 distribution records 4 licensed retailers and microbusinesses and $216,068.40 in excise paid to the municipality. Confirm caps, buffers and district zoning with the city and the CRA before signing.
Madison Heights has opted in to adult-use cannabis
Adult-use establishments are permitted by local ordinance and the ordinance we read admits new applicants.
- Adult-use detail
- UnverifiedNot verified — contact us to confirm current status
- Medical detail
- UnverifiedNot verified — contact us to confirm current status
- Accepting new applicants
- Yes
Capacity
Licence caps and current count
- Local cap
- 5 retailers, 5 processors and 25 Class C growers under Ordinance 2159 (October 2023); 5 medical Class C growers.
- Accepting new applications
- Yes
- FY2025 licensed retailers + microbusinesses
- 4
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
- Not designated — the state's reduced application and licensing fees do not apply to a location here.
- FY2025 excise received
- $216,068.40
- 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
Madison Heights commercial real estate context
Madison Heights is an industrial cannabis market rather than a retail one. The I-75 / Stephenson Highway corridor carries the deep-bay, heavy-power industrial stock that Class C cultivation and processing need, and the city raised its caps to 25 Class C growers in October 2023 to settle litigation over its original limits. That combination — genuine industrial inventory plus caps that were widened rather than tightened — makes it one of the few inner-ring Oakland County cities where a new cultivation or processing building is still a realistic acquisition rather than a licence purchase.
Inventory
C3 CRE inventory in Madison Heights
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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 Madison Heights is the fastest way to see them first.
Questions
Madison Heights cannabis real estate questions
- Is cannabis legal to sell in Madison Heights, Michigan?
- Yes. Madison Heights has opted in to adult-use cannabis establishments.
- How many cannabis licences does Madison Heights have?
- 4. The Michigan Treasury FY2025 adult-use excise distribution, reflecting licensed retailers and microbusinesses as of roughly 30 September 2025, records 4 licences in Madison Heights, which produced $216,068.40 in excise distributed to the municipality at $54,017.10 per licence.
- Is there a cap on cannabis retailers in Madison Heights?
- 5 retailers, 5 processors and 25 Class C growers under Ordinance 2159 (October 2023); 5 medical Class C growers. Caps are set by local ordinance, not by the state, and they are amended more often than operators expect — confirm the current figure with the municipality before signing.
- What are the buffer and setback rules in Madison Heights?
- We have not verified Madison Heights'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 Madison Heights impose?
- We have not verified additional local ordinance terms — operating hours, permitted districts, insurance, fee caps or co-location — for Madison Heights. Not verified — contact us to confirm current status.
- Is Madison Heights a social equity community?
- No. Madison Heights is not a state-designated social equity community, so the state's reduced application and licensing fees for qualifying applicants do not apply to a location here.
- How much cannabis excise revenue did Madison Heights receive in FY2025?
- $216,068.40. 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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