Who knew strawberries could be such a big business?
An investment firm from Maine that is primarily focused on power generation wants to construct a greenhouse and warehouse facility that will be the size of six Walmart supercenters on a 30-acre former scrapyard in Niagara County in an agricultural project estimated to cost about $95 million.
There it plans to grow strawberries year-round, as well as other fruits and vegetables, to be supplied to stores and supermarkets throughout the Northeastern United States. It will not grow cannabis.
The firm, Northern Farms, first plans to acquire and clean up the long-vacant site in Cambria at 5222 Junction Road, which is owned by a defunct corporation that owes more than $600,000 in taxes to the county. It would then construct a 1.2-million-square-foot greenhouse on 25 acres, along with a 100,000-square-foot warehouse to store and ship its product.
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