Construction is well under way in Kitchener, Ont. on the second phase of a project that entails transformation of a former auto parts plant into a state-of-the art cannabis cultivation facility.
The project, at 530 Manitou Dr., is being carried out for James E. Wagner Cultivation (JWC) Corp. by a team that includes Ball Construction, Stecho Electric and Price Mechanical.
The retrofitted facility, known as JWC 2, has been designed to provide approximately 345,000 square feet of production space as well as a variety of support areas.
In scouting potential locations for the facility, James E. Wagner Cultivation had two key criteria in mind, said Nicole Werth, the company’s director of strategic initiatives. These were:
- Significant power feeding into the building; and
- Ceiling heights high enough to implement the corporation’s proprietary aeroponic GrowthSTORM dual droplet system.
“This building has both of these things,” Werth said in an email. “In addition to that, it is local to Kitchener-Waterloo, which is where our company began and where we would like to continue to grow.
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