GrowForce to open cannabis facility in Winnipeg

Producers are taking a pot shotin Winnipeg.

GrowForce Holdings will open what company officialsare callingtheir "flagship cannabis cultivation facility" in Winnipeg. It will be the third facility for the newCanadian firm.

GrowForceis renovating a 120,000-square-foot building in St. Boniface to bring it into compliancewith Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations.

"We looked at several cities before selecting Winnipeg," said Rishi Gautam, GrowForce CEO.

"We were looking for a large-scale facility that met a lot of our criteria as an operator, in terms of availability, of talent, of power rates, close to an urban centre," he said.

"We choose this location predominantly because of the type of building we found, but also the people in the surrounding area that have been supporting us since day one."

The move will eventually bring 150-200 jobs to the city, said Gautam.

"The jobs are very diverse," he said. "So you have hourly rate workers that do trimming and packaging, and then you have sophisticated horticultural positions that are more in the cultivation tech side.

There will also be workers needed for lab work and biological work, he said.

GrowForceis also renovatingsites in Brampton, Ont., and Dunnville, Ont.

GrowForce to open cannabis facility in Winnipeg

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GrowForce Holdings will open what company officials are calling their "flagship cannabis cultivation facility" in Winnipeg