Three years ago, Boardman native Brian Kessler, who now lives in California, announced plans to grow marijuana for medical purposes in a warehouse on Crescent Street, north of downtown Youngstown.
Since then, Riviera Creek Holdings has come a long way and is even ready to announce some new products. In Nov. 2017, the company was granted its medical marijuana cultivator license. Over a year later, it finally harvested the first of its five crops in Feb. 2019.
Kessler, chairman of the Riviera Creek Board, said they’ve learned a lot through their first year of business. “When we first started, the biggest problem was there were very few patients, there were no stores,” Kessler said.
So, most of Riviera Creek’s business occurred in November and December of 2019. About 80,000 patients signed up, which was what Kessler predicted, and he’s hoping for 150,000 by year’s end.
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