Local residents expressed hope that a budding medical marijuana facility will help revitalize a borough once partially economically dependent on a leather plant that shut down years ago.
The medical marijuana facility along Horton Drive in Saxton is expected to start producing in a couple of weeks, said Green Leaf Medical CEO Philip Goldberg after a community tour of the facility Tuesday.
Goldberg said the facility has its occupancy certificate, but he is waiting to have the space inspected by the Department of Health.
The facility’s current 12 staff members are training in Frederick, Md.
Another wave of hirings will happen in May and June, bumping staff up to about 50, about half of the anticipated number of employees, said Jim Elftmann, the company’s director of operations. During the community tour, more than 50 local residents toured the different spaces in the unfinished facility including flower rooms, an irrigation room and an extraction lab.
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