Plans are in the works to transform the former Statton Furniture Co. building in Hagerstown into a medical-marijuana facility.
“A site plan has been finalized for converting the facility to be a medical marijuana growing facility,” Stephen Bockmiller, city development planner and zoning administrator, wrote in an email. “Building permits are pending. Some work was authorized to begin, mostly involving replacing the roof and interior demolitions.”
The building is at 504 E. First St.
The plan is for Kind Therapeutics/Mari Holdings Md. LLC.
Online property records report that Mari Holdings Md. LLC purchased the property from Statton Industrial Park LLC for $940,000 in March. And Kind Therapeutics last year received initial state approval for grower and processor licenses in Washington County.
Repeated attempts to contact Kind Therapeutics officials were unsuccessful.
According to the planning commission minutes, the property covers about 4 acres and includes a 155,192-square-foot building.
Statton Furniture had been in business since 1926, according to Herald-Mail Media archives. During the company’s heyday in the mid-1980s, the company employed about 200 people, but the number dwindled until the last of the supervisors was let go in December 2008.
In January 2009, machinery, furniture parts, saw blades and other items in the factory were sold at auction.
The building was sold later that day for $650,000 after an initial auction failed to produce results, according to a previous Herald-Mail story.
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