US (CA): Cannabis production park comes to Salinas

Smart Cannabis has signed and received deposits on a multi-phase contract to build-out a turnkey cannabis production park in Salinas, California. The project is legally permitted and is scheduled to break ground next week. The company’s new Gutter Connect system is also being launched in connection with this project.

The customer had previously purchased eighteen of the company’s Quick Deploy greenhouses which were originally slated to be deployed at an alternate location. The new site, however, is much smaller which presented the company and client with a challenge to be able to have the same cultivation space in a smaller footprint. In turn, an opportunity to actually expand the square footage came about by CEO John Taylor developing a new, cutting edge greenhouse system that can retrofit any of the company’s existing greenhouses to not only be connected, but increase greenhouse square footage. This new series is called Quick Deploy Gutter Connect.

The original Quick Deploy greenhouses sold to the client in 2017 measured 30×96 feet, providing a total cultivation square footage of 51,840 for eighteen (18) units. With fire roads and space between greenhouses, this project required a minimum of 247,000 sqft. of land. Creating the new Quick Deploy Gutter Connect greenhouses exceeds approximately 13,000 sqft. (64,800 sq.ft. total) of grow space as each unit is 31×120 feet. Moreover, this massive cultivation project only sits on an 80,000 sqft. pad.