That’s great news for patients and a boon for Bay area dispensaries like Surterra Wellness, which has just opened a new location in Brandon.
According to the TBBJ, the wellness center (as parent company Surterra Holdings Inc. likes to call them) has taken over an old Payless Shoe Source store located at 1256 E. Brandon Blvd just two miles from Brandon Regional Hospital. It’s the 20th Surterra location in Florida, where the Georgia-based company hopes to eventually have 25 stores (Tampa, St. Petersburg, South Tampa, Lakeland and North Port all have their own Surterra locations).
As Orlando Weekly pointed out in its coverage of a store in their neighborhood, Surterra's products include transdermal patches, vape pens, oils, lotions and sprays.
Monica Russell, a spokesperson for the company, told CL’s sister newspaper that Surterra also provides statewide delivery and has five other locations in Florida.
"It's been described by many as feeling more like a medical spa, very clean and inviting," Russell says. "But we wanted it to feel more like a home. Anyone can walk in — people who are patients, prospective patients, even people who want to learn more or are against it."
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This article appears in Mar 7-14, 2019.