Already, at least one operator has been caught in the crossfire. When Mitch Woolhiser was told he was now considered to be the owner/operator of a sin business and would probably have to relocate, he couldnt believe his ears. In February the former software developer and his wife, Eva, a dental hygienist, had signed a three-year lease on the spiffy storefront in the town of Edgewater, just west of Denver, and opened the Northern Lights medical marijuana dispensary. Two months later, his landlord, Charles Woolley of St. Charles Town Company, broke the news that CFHA had sent notice that the dispensary was in violation of the propertys mortgage agreement.
Woolley, who has redeveloped numerous urban properties in Denver, was able to finance the Edgewater project in 2007 through $8.7 million in New Market Tax Credits offered by the federal government. Since the funds were administered through CHFA, however, its up to officials from the quasi-public agency to enforce rules preventing to certain types of businesses from setting up shop in the space, namely sin businesses such as liquor stores, massage parlors, gambling outfits and tanning salons.

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