The former Lindsay Olive processing plant will be home to an indoor cannabis cultivation, manufacturing and distribution operation after the Lindsay City Council voted 5-0 to approve a conditional indoor use permit for the project on March 9.
The 35-acre property at the corner of North Westwood Avenue and West Tulare Road is zoned as Heavy Industrial. The olive processing plant closed in 1992. After that, Tulare Frozen Foods operated there but it has been vacant since 2011.
The property owner, Eric Hanson, requested the conditional use permit. Hanson is the president of Fischer Metal Products, Inc. in Visalia.
There are 10 existing buildings on the property, but initial cannabis-related operations will take place in a 10,000 square-foot space dubbed “Building C.”
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