Took six months for the owners to find a location and slog through the usual paperwork and acquire the necessary permits and licenses, but Auburn’s second recreational marijuana business is about to open shop.

“We’re ready to open at the end of the week,” Arnie Nelson, owner with Jeff Anderson and Eric Gaston of Evergreen Market, said Tuesday. “We’re just waiting on the final inspection from the Liquor and Cannabis Control Board. “The surveillance system and the camera system is up and running. The carpet is in (Wednesday), and that’s the very last thing.

“I think it will be the most beautiful cannabis store in the state, and state-of-the-art in cannabis sales in Washington,” Nelson added of the store-to-be at 402 16th St. NE, just behind Taco Bell and across from the Iron Horse Casino.

Auburn’s first recreational marijuana store, the Stashbox, opened at 3108 A St. SE in November of 2014.

Anderson, Gaston and Nelson got their paperwork in before the City of Auburn’s imposition in early January of a one-year moratorium on the acceptance of additional applications, permits and licenses for retail marijuana stores. Councilmembers took that step following hard on the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board’s decision to lift the limit on the number of such stores to allow medical patients access to the products they need.

Nelson, Anderson and Gaston are no newcomers to the business, having opened their flagship store and the Auburn location’s namesake in Renton in April of 2014.

According to a story that appeared in the Renton Reporter in 2014 announcing the opening of the Renton store, that location is graced by a large wooden “library,” complete with rolling ladder, located behind what looks like a bar, an area designed to feature growers.

Nelson said the Auburn store will be “90 percent similar” in appearance to its forebear in Renton, the only changes being those enforced by the configuration of the new locale.

“We’ll have an education bar, and the brands will be the same. And just like there, the focus will be on education and experience. We have a very large space so that people can have a very positive and open shopping experience in a beautiful environment with well trained and experienced sales people,” Nelson said.

And as in Renton, there will even be a lighted magnifying glass installed on the bar so buyers can give the goods a thorough eye-balling.

Overall, the idea is to give growers a place to come and show off their wares, meet the public, and explain a bit about their products.

As Gaston told the Renton Reporter, he and his co-owners are an interesting mix that helps drive the shop and its philosophy: “celebrate, educate and elevate.”