Ben Kovler’s Green Thumb Industries is expanding its $5.7 billion empire in the Empire State with a lavish new grow facility to compete in the booming marijuana market.
bout 60 miles north of Manhattan, at the foothills of the Ramapo Mountains and past a few cow pastures, stands the red brick buildings of the old Mid-Orange Correctional Facility in Warwick, New York. In 2011, then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo shuttered the prison. Now a decade later, 40 acres of penitentiary farmland is being transformed into the new home of Green Thumb Industries, one of the nation’s largest cannabis companies, and its $150-million cultivation and manufacturing site.
Dig This: Ben Kovler, CEO of Green Thumb Industries, at the groundbreaking of its new 200,000-square-foot cannabis facility on the grounds of a former prison in New York’s Hudson Valley.This particular plot of land has been a witness to more than a century of America’s evolving views on drugs and crime. In 1914, it was home to the New York City Farm, an early drug and alcohol treatment center run by Charles Stokes, a former Surgeon General of the United States.
“I think it's just a home run for us,” says Sweeton, overlooking the pile of dirt he has been trying to develop for the past ten years. “We are a farm community economy—we have a lot of farm tourism, a lot of active farms, but we don't really have much of the corporate realm. This is a brave new world.”
Pavan Naidu, an aide to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, described GTI’s site as “a pioneering economic engine for Warwick and its surrounding communities.”
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