News of AMP’s closure did not reach some customers, with at least two trying to patronize the Fitchburg dispensary within a span of five minutes on Friday morning.
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Atlantic Medicinal Partners, a cannabis company with a cultivation facility and dispensary in Fitchburg, has abruptly closed its doors amid two lawsuits relating to financial troubles.
All three locations are listed as temporarily closed on Google Maps, with no one answering the door when a WBJ reporter visited its Fitchburg facility during business hours on Friday.
AMP first opened in Fitchburg in September 2020 at 774 Crawford St., later opening additional dispensaries in Salem and Brockton. The company was founded by CEO Steve Perkins, Chief Operating Officer Jeff Perkins, and business partner Frank Cieri. The Fitchburg site was a former LEGO manufacturing facility where AMP sold and produced both recreational and medicinal cannabis products.
The closure of AMP’s locations comes as it faces at least two lawsuits over alleged unpaid debts and loan obligations. The lawsuits seek a combined $6.11 million from the business in damages.
The company did not respond to a request for comment left via voicemail, with other numbers related to the business no longer in service.
Paul Muzyka, a trustee of the trust that owns AMP’s Fitchburg site, filed a lawsuit against the firm in Worcester Superior Court on May 1. The lawsuit alleges AMP stopped paying rent and utilities, accumulating $112,000 in unpaid rent and $64,800 in unpaid water and sewer payments to the City of Fitchburg. The filing claims AMP misled Muzyka about its financial situation, with leadership allegedly telling him its financial difficulties were temporary and that they had a path forward for the business.
The lawsuit alleges breach of contract, unjust enrichment, negligent and intentional misrepresentation, fraud, and economic waste. It seeks $3.54 million in damages, with the judge already approving a preliminary injunction ordering AMP to post a $300,000 bond for overdue Fitchburg taxes and water bills. The judge approved a $1-million attachment on AMP’s non‑cannabis assets and found a reasonable likelihood that AMP is insolvent.
Muzyka did not respond to a request for comment.
The Worcester filing happened five days before after a May 6 lawsuit against AMP in Middlesex Superior Court. The lawsuit was filed by Victoria Waters, a Walpole resident who said she provided AMP with a $1-million loan in 2019. The five-year loan had a 15% interest rate which compounded annually, according to court documents.
Waters’ lawsuit says AMP failed to pay back both the principal and required interest by the loan’s March 2024 maturity date. The lawsuit asks the court to confirm an award of $2.57 million to Waters, which was granted in April through an arbitration process.
Joshua Grossman of Boston-based law firm Davis, Malm and D'Agostine is representing Waters in the case. He declined comment on Friday, citing the ongoing litigation.
AMP's website was still active as of Friday, with its online ordering system still taking orders for its Fitchburg location. News of AMP’s closure did not reach some customers, with at least two trying to patronize the Fitchburg dispensary within a span of five minutes on Friday morning.
The business joins other Central Massachusetts cannabis firms in Clinton, Fitchburg, and elsewhere which have closed their doors or ended up in receivership due to financial troubles.
A total of 31 cannabis licenses were under receivership as of April 16, according to a Cannabis Control Commission meeting agenda packet.
AMP was the 11th-largest cannabis company in Central Massachusetts as of the second quarter of 2025, according to information provided to the WBJ Research Department. AMP had 50 employees at that time.
Eric Casey is the managing editor at Worcester Business Journal, who primarily covers the real estate and banking & finance industries.
