Producer of David Ortiz’s cannabis brand in Mass. owes $280K in unpaid rent, lawsuit alleges
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Revolutionary Clinics' Fitchburg cultivation facility
Revolutionary Clinics, a cannabis company with a cultivation and production facility in Fitchburg and four dispensaries in Massachusetts including Leominster, is facing a lawsuit accusing the company of owing $279,570 in unpaid rent at its dispensary in Cambridge’s Central Square.
The company joins a number of other Central Massachusetts cannabis firms with pending lawsuits as the industry enters its seventh year since adult-use marijuana was legalized in the state.
Revolutionary Clinics operates its retail dispensaries under the brand name Rev Clinics and its indoor Fitchburg cultivation under the name Rev Farms. The company is the Massachusetts manufacturer of Papi Cannabis products, a brand launched by former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz in the summer of 2022.
Since its Massachusetts launch, Papi Cannabis has expanded to Maine, where it is produced by a different cannabis company.
The lawsuit, filed in Middlesex County Superior Court on March 27, was filed against CD Services of America LLC and Revolutionary Growers, LLC, two entities sharing an address with Revolutionary Clinics’ Andover headquarters.
The lawsuit was filed by 545-565 Mass Ave. LLC, a Cambridge-based entity serving as the landlord for Rev Clinic’s 541 Massachusetts Ave. location. In the lawsuit, the plaintiff alleges the company failed to make monthly rent payments in December, as well as in January, February, and March. The lawsuit claims the company only paid part of the rent owed for October.
545-565 Mass Ave. LLC claims in the lawsuit Revolutionary is in breach of the lease contract and has failed to specifically perform all of its obligations that are outlined in the lease. The lawsuit seeks $293,548 in damages to cover the missed payments, as well as administrative fees, accrued interest, and attorneys’ fees.
Revolutionary Clinics did not respond to an email from WBJ requesting comment. The company operates two dispensaries in Cambridge, one in Somerville, and one in Leominster.
Revolutionary’s Fitchburg facility was constructed in 2017. In 2020, the company was hit with a $120,000 fine and four months of probation by the state’s Cannabis Control Commission after the agency found it manufactured and sold vaporizer cartridges exceeding allowed state limits for ethanol in late 2018 and early 2019.
The company had 213 employees in Central Massachusetts and 313 employees statewide in 2023, according to data provided to the WBJ Research Department via survey, making it the second largest cannabis company in Central Massachusetts at the time.
A number of lawsuits involving Central Massachusetts cannabis companies have been filed since 2022.
Greatest Hits, a Dudley-based operator of dispensaries, has been sued for alleged unpaid invoices relating to products it purchased on the wholesale market from a Chelsea-based cultivator. Discern'd Cannabis Purveyors in Grafton is facing a lawsuit over alleged unpaid debt, and Cresco Labs, a Chicago-based cannabis company with a location in Leicester, is suing a cannabis company with locations in Wellfleet and Attleboro for an alleged lack of payment.
A proposed cannabis grower in Clinton was also facing a lawsuit over alleged unpaid invoices for the installation of an HVAC system, but it has since settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount.
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