Adelanto, California wants to be the ‘Silicon Valley of medical marijuana’
Developers envision a town bustling with marijuana-related businesses — cultivation warehouses, cannabis-oil extraction facilities and a host of associated projects to supply California’s massive market.
In a plot of desert surrounded by Joshua trees and aging factories, developer James Previti — in a suit coat and Louis Vuitton shades — watches as construction workers build the roof of a concrete building that from afar looks like a future Costco.
Previti has spent years developing homes around the Inland Empire.
But this is something new for him: a 30-acre industrial park in Adelanto divided into 21 units that will be sold to marijuana cultivators for $7.5 million each.
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