Posted on 08/08/2017 10:24:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV) - On Tuesday morning Doyen Elements officially broke ground on a 234-thousand square foot cannabis grow facility in Pueblo.
It'll be located at 1900 Freeway Drive in Pueblo, which is the former Pepsi bottling facility.
"We've taken the facility and we are retrofitting it into a 234,000 square foot grow facility that will be developed into three separate phases," said Geoff Thompson with Doyen Elements. "Phase one will take 9-11 months and then the next two phases through an 18 to 24 month period of time."
Once construction is complete the entire facility will run 24 hours a day seven days a week.
It'll have the capacity to produce between 60,000 and 70,000 pounds of cannabis product per year through the operators that are coming into it.
"It will create over 100 jobs in construction alone. As well as jobs for subcontractors and contractors coming through. Once it is operational this facility will produce 180 jobs full time," Thompson said.
Pueblo City Councilman Bob Schilling was on hand for the ground breaking ceremony and says the construction aspect of it will add a lot of money to the half cent sales tax money.
"It's also going to create with construction $60,000 in half cent sales tax money that is going straight into economic development. Anybody that has a job is proud to have a job. Any job is honorable and they are bringing honorable work to town and increasing our economy," Schilling said.
"We've had close to $200-million of outside investment coming to Pueblo for the most part its been facilities like this that have been vacant and these investment dollars have really revitalized construction. Contractors real estate and also created a ton of jobs after the fact as well," said Pueblo County Commissioner Sal Pace.
Pace says a vast majority of the area where there are marijuana cultivations in Pueblo were vacant or run down facilities.
Pace says a facility like this is not only creating construction jobs it's taken a formerly run down vacant facility and making it productive again.
"It's putting this facility and similar facilities on the tax roles and creating jobs in perpetuity," said Pace.
Doyen Elements says construction on the project should be complete in a couple of years.
234,000 feet of societal destruction. As always, it is for control and taxation, making drugs safe for the populace. Since when has government control ever made anything right? They just want the money they never had before.
Yes and that is the bottom line in all these pushing for it has nothing to do with the product. That is why they want Abortion it is about the Monies. Greedy.......
pot jobs will MAGA?
Do you have to pass a piss test to get one of these jobs?
That’d be quite ironic, wouldn’t it?
Wanna bet this doesn’t fall prey to asset forfeiture?
With everyone jumping on this bandwagon, there’s gonna be a huuuuge glut.
Dude can’t you like grow it in your back yard, for free?
No, I think the state restricts the numbers of growers, how much they can grow and the number of retail shops.
Now that’s going to be a real “Rocky Mountain High”, isn’t it?
why is so much space vacant in Pueblo? Does it have something to do with the dumbasses who run/ruin it?
My first question on visiting such a facility in the Denver area, was “do the workers get a company discount”? The answer, “it’s why many of them work here”.
They do have rather strict requirements for workers. No rap sheet, no felony convictions, and more.
Colorado Home Grown:
That took around 10 seconds to find...it amazes me how people will spread misinformation without making the slightest effort to verify...
When Prohibition ended and the drug alcohol became legal and regulated, deaths from tainted product dropped.
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." - Adam Smith
Better we should grow our pot than Mexico grow our pot.
That, or all the profits will go up in smoke
180 jobs
180,000 lives destroyed
The law is not being enforced here in CA. Everyone has a grow. The water district is complying with requests for larger meters. My neighborhood smells like it's been invaded by skunks. Our sleepy community is now bustling with traffic. Home building is restricted due to no sewer, everyone is on septic, but large lot sales are soaring.
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