A warehouse in Baker County that has sat empty for more than a decade will soon be transformed into a sprawling medical cannabis grow facility.
Acreage Holdings, a publicly traded cannabis cultivation company with facilities in 20 states, announced its plans for the Sanderson facility during a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday.
"We are excited about the capital investment that is estimated to be around $15 million in rehabbing and equipment they will put in this facility," said Darryl Register, executive director of the Baker County Chamber of Commerce. "And then of course the jobs. That is huge for Baker County, 80 to 100 jobs, and it's all different types of jobs, from the people that plant the seeds and do the cultivating to the harvest to the processing and the lab and to packaging and delivery to the retail markets."
Acreage Holdings said the operation, its first in Florida, will start small with portable shipping container grow houses at the facility that manufactured Hanson concrete roof tiles until it went out of business in 2009.
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