“Overall, good,” said Daniel Kessler, CEO of Riviera Creek, on the performance of the only MMJ cultivation facility in the Mahoning Valley.
“We’ve continued our growth in terms of continuing to add capacity to our facility, really, since we started,” Kessler said. “Our overall strategy has been to start small and continue to grow as demand continues to grow.”
The facility on Crescent Street received its certificate of operation in 2018 and opened in 2019 with two flowering/harvest rooms, and it has tripled capacity since. The latest expansion of two grow rooms came online at the end of 2022.
“The market is absorbing those, but we have seen toward the beginning of this year a little bit of a plateau in terms of patient count,” Kessler said.
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