Facilities & real estate
What should I look for in a cannabis warehouse?
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Verify electrical service and utility upgrade capacity, clear height and roof loading against the mechanical design, water and drainage infrastructure, hazardous classification feasibility if extraction is planned, and zoning: permitted versus conditional use, buffer measurement method, and remaining license capacity in that district before treating any warehouse as a viable site.
Range reflects C3's Michigan transaction experience, not a published dataset.
Sequence diligence, don't run it all at once
Zoning and utility diligence should run first and in parallel, because they are pass/fail gates that make everything else irrelevant if they fail. Only after a parcel clears opt-in status, permitted-use zoning and a utility capacity letter does it make sense to spend money on detailed mechanical and structural engineering.
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