A former Cambria Iron Co. machine shop has been sold for $1 million to the company that recast the site into a medical cannabis growing facility in 2020. It’s part of a move that will enable Hanging Gardens LLC to fill 200 full-time jobs, Hanging Gardens Chief Financial Officer Shane Kenney said.
“Hanging Gardens considers itself fortunate to have found Johnstown, particularly with the support of the community and the Johnstown Redevelopment Authority,” he said Tuesday.
Kenney described the move as a commitment to the community and the products Hanging Gardens develops inside an “emblem of the Industrial Age reborn to offer life-changing medicine for generations to come.”
In doing so, the authority transferred rights to the 34,000-square-foot former machine shop and less than a half-acre of surrounding property alongside Iron Street.
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