Common questions.

Yes. 10% of gross revenue during the sublease, and it covers everything: real estate carry, interest-free financing, compliance, and CFO-grade financial management. Priced separately, those cost far more than 10%, and most first-time operators can't access them at all. The fee is a percentage of gross revenue: a slow start costs you less rather than more. You're not buying a service line, you're buying the whole operating platform. Gross revenue excludes cannabis excise and sales taxes, payment processing fees, and discounts to customers. See the loan program →

No, it's a percentage of gross revenue, not profit. That's deliberate: it keeps the math simple and keeps PCA carrying real risk on the lease, the property taxes, and the interest-free loans.

There isn't one on the interest. The construction loan and the working capital and loss reserve loan are both repaid, with no interest. PCA makes its return through the 10%, not through lending. The loans are how we get you open and keep you liquid without draining your balance sheet. Note: the loans are interest-free to the client. PCA is taxed on imputed interest at the lowest applicable rate published by the IRS.

PCA pays the real estate taxes on the space it holds the head lease on and subleases to you. Sales tax, cannabis excise tax, corporate income taxes, and personal taxes remain the financial responsibility of the client. PCA provides introductions and group rates to CPAs and tax attorneys for 280E purposes, as requested by clients.

No. You keep 100% of your equity. PCA holds the lease and provides the Platform. We don't own, control, or absorb your business.

You do, entirely and permanently. PCA never holds it, never collateralizes it, never puts it up as security on any loan. You're the licensee of record; you sign your attestations and make the final compliance calls.

Yes. You own the license, keep your brand, set your assortment, hire your team, and run the store. PCA carries the infrastructure around you, that's the point. The name is literal: we're the platform, you're the operator.

The structure is a sublease with a defined term rather than a permanent bind on your business. The specific length is part of the deal we work out with you. Your license and brand are always yours to take.

Yes. You choose the location and run your store inside it. PCA negotiates and carries the head lease and property taxes on that site so you don't tie up capital in the real estate before you're open.

Because PCA finances the buildout, it's delivered by PCA's contractor, one accountable team, on budget. You make your finish and layout selections from the PCA Spec Book. It's how the build stays on time and on budget when PCA's capital is in it.

You can, and plenty of operators keep their own counsel for legal work. PCA is not a law firm and doesn't replace one. The difference is integration: a compliance firm hands you advice and an invoice, then you still carry the lease and the buildout on your own balance sheet and coordinate everyone yourself. PCA runs licensing and compliance advisory alongside the real estate, the capital, and the bookkeeping, as one engagement priced to your revenue.

We protect every operator's numbers the same way we'd protect yours, that's part of the deal. What we can share is how independent NY retail performs in aggregate, and connect you with operators willing to speak to their experience.

A franchise sells you someone else's brand and takes a royalty on top of a franchise fee. You're building their name, not yours. A management company typically runs the store's day-to-day itself, or asks for equity in exchange for that control. PCA does neither: you keep your own brand and run your own store.

PCA. Not the individual dispensary operator. We sign the head lease, we pay the rent, we pay the property taxes on the space.

No. Your counterparty is still PCA, a multi-location, capitalized platform, regardless of how any single store performs. You're not left holding a lease with a single small business that just closed.

A typical cannabis tenant is a single-location startup, often undercapitalized, learning the business as it goes. PCA is the institutional layer standing between that operator and you: we hold the lease, we manage the relationship, and we've done this across our portfolio, not once.

PCA finances and manages construction through our own contractor, a professionally run buildout on a defined budget and timeline, not an operator improvising with whatever capital they can piece together.

PCA holds the head lease with you and subleases to the operator. You deal with PCA as your counterparty throughout the term. Discuss your site →

Platform Cannabis Advisors is the integrated real estate, capital, and advisory platform behind independent cannabis retailers in New York. We take on the infrastructure, the lease, the financing, the compliance, so operators can stay independent and run their stores.

PCA operates a portfolio of independent dispensaries across New York today, expanding thoughtfully. Every one of them keeps their own license, brand, and equity.

New York is where we built the platform and proved it works. It isn't a limit. We're open to conversations with operators, landlords, and capital partners in other markets, and expanding thoughtfully.