BUFFALO, N.Y. — Construction on the first building in a cannabis R&D and production complex at Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park will start this week following the sale of 80 acres of city-owned land to the project’s development team.
According to Aug. 24 filings in the Erie County Clerk’s office, Laborers Way LLC, an affiliate of Encinitas, Calif.-based Zephyr Investments LLC, closed on the eight parcels it needs for a multi-phased, $300 million cannabis campus.
Laborers Way paid about $2 million for the vacant parcels, in a deal negotiated two years ago with Buffalo Urban Development Corp., the city development agency that owns Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park.
Read the full story from our partners at Buffalo Business First.