Closed Marijuana Factory to Get New Life in Upstate New York

The New York State Office of Cannabis Management voted Thursday to reopen a shuttered upstate medical marijuana production facility, paving the way for new ownership to revive a facility that was among the first of its kind in the state.

The million-square-foot facility in Utica, New York, the former MedMen site, will be reopened by Nonna Farms, a small team of private investors co-led by Ajaie Gibson. Nonna’s investors have pledged $10 million to modernize and expand the production facility in an effort to restore the region’s foothold in the medical marijuana industry. Under the state’s medical cannabis program, Nonna ...