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An old building in Pueblo County, Colorado will be receiving some seriously new pop in 2019 after a group of canna-capitalists turn a once-abandoned Pepsi factory into one of the state’s largest, and most technically advanced cannabis grow operations, with the capacity to produce 70,000 pounds of pot per year.
According to Business Insider, the 104,000 square foot facility is the brainchild of Doyen Elements, a financial holding company doing their best to facilitate every part of the legal weed industry, without actually touching the bud itself. Once renovated, the company will lease out the cavernous space to one or more licensed growers.
The space, capable of producing more than $20 million worth of weed every year, was once a major manufacturing hub and bottling plant for Pepsi, but like most of the industrial jobs in Pueblo County, the factory has been closed for over a decade, left abandoned on the side of a desolate highway.
The repurposing of the soda factory is just the latest instance of Colorado’s cannabis industry revitalizing Pueblo County. Since the first legal pot shop opened in Pueblo in 2014, the county has welcomed over 100 dispensaries, grow…
