A property that will soon host one of the first regulated medical-marijuana dispensaries in Vancouver is facing redevelopment.

Although the plan means that the current B.C. Pain Society pot store will have to move out of 2894 East Broadway, group founder Charles Varabioff isn’t worried.

According to Varabioff, the property owner has agreed to let the cannabis outlet return after development.

“We’ll be the newest and best dispensary in Canada then,” Varabioff told the Straight by phone.

Varabioff expects to get a business licence for the store, one of the first six medical-marijuana shops that have received development permits from the City of Vancouver.

Decorus Developments Inc. has filed a rezoning application with the city. The company plans to build a four-storey building. Decorus is proposing to build 37 market rental units on the upper three storeys, with commercial use at ground level.

Chris Knight of Gair Williamson Architects told the Straight by phone that construction will start, at the earliest, in September 2017.