{"id":75104,"date":"2025-12-19T01:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75104\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:37:14","slug":"new-york-approves-nonna-farms-10-million-revamp-of-utica-cannabis-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75104\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Approves Nonna Farms\u2019 $10 Million Revamp of Utica Cannabis Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/cannabis.ny.gov\/\" title=\"Link to website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">New York State Office of Cannabis Management<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">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\u2019s investors have pledged $10 million to modernize and expand the production facility in an effort to restore the region\u2019s foothold in the medical marijuana industry. Under the state\u2019s medical cannabis program, Nonna Farms is the first social equity-owned vertically integrated Registered Organization, a designation that under state licensing allows the group to both grow and sell its products direct to consumer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York State Office of Cannabis Management voted Thursday to reopen a shuttered upstate medical marijuana production&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4241,5862,37777,426,9,11,10,87],"class_list":{"0":"post-75104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany","9":"tag-donald-john-trump","10":"tag-jessica-gamboa-garcia","11":"tag-kathy-hochul","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}