What Cannabis Business Times reported
Managing member Bill Foster had watched Ohio cannabis since the failed 2015 ballot issue. It took two denied applications and a lawsuit before his group won a license in 2021, in the middle of pandemic supply shortages.
Our whole design was meant to have craft cannabis at scale
The site came in May 2022. Ground broke in January 2023 and the grow was running on August 15, 2023. To beat two-year equipment waits, the team bought lights and HVAC first and designed the building around them, piecing HVAC together from five suppliers.
The result: 25,000 square feet of double-tiered canopy inside an 88,000-square-foot building, rooms of 2,883 square feet with tiers 6 feet apart, and about 2,000 LED lights. The grow started with 10 employees in six rooms, owners included.
The piece is sponsored by Fluence, which supplied the lights. The facts about the build come from Foster and operations VP Rick Mursinna.
What it means at the counter
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License in 2021, running by August 2023.
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Double-tiered rooms built for airflow and consistency.
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Started with 10 people; WCPO later counted 120.
