The town has given a Midwestern developer the green light to grow cannabis and produce products at the dormant Greylock Mill.
The Select Board on Tuesday night unanimously approved a special permit for Spirtas Global LLC to take control of the planned cannabis-cultivation/manufacturing project from a West Coast company. The firm now must secure a license from the state Cannabis Control Commission before work can begin to convert the paper mill into a cannabis operation.
Eric Spirtas formed Spirtas Global to follow through with the same basic indoor-only operation that California-based Zipbox Corp. proposed for the 161,000-square-foot factory.
Spirtas is president of Niagara Worldwide of St. Louis and Niagara, Wis., which bought the vacant Greylock, Columbia and Niagara mills in Lee and Lenox Dale in 2014. The commercial development and acquisition company sold Greylock to Zipbox in March 2019 for $3.8 million.
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