{"id":400201,"date":"2026-08-07T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400201\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:28:07","slug":"80-acres-farms-shutting-down-san-antonio-site-lay-off-166","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400201\/","title":{"rendered":"80 Acres Farms shutting down San Antonio site, lay off 166"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.80acresfarms.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">80 Acres Farms<\/a> is shutting down its operations, including a vertical grow operation on the South Side, after a deal to sell the company fell through.<\/p>\n<p>The vertical farming business notified the Texas Workforce Commission that it will lay off 166 workers at its San Antonio operations at <a href=\"https:\/\/livebrooks.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooks<\/a>. The layoffs, which started Monday, are expected to be complete by Aug. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mike Zelkind, the CEO and co-founder of Hamilton, Ohio-based company, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twc.texas.gov\/data-reports\/warn-notice\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification<\/a> letter that the business was permanently shutting down after a prospective buyer \u201cunexpectedly withdrew from the transaction\u201d on Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout the anticipated transaction proceeds and with no other funding available to sustain operations, the company was required to make the immediate decision to wind down its business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Company is providing this notice as soon as practicable after learning that the transaction would not proceed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The vertical grow operation at Brooks was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/business\/real-estate\/article\/soli-organic-indoor-farm-san-antonio-south-side-19508435.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched in 2024<\/a> by Virginia-based\u00a0Soli Organic Inc. in a 140,000-square-foot industrial building. It used stacks of metal shelves, robots and artificial light to sprout herbs and greens like spinach, basil and lettuce.\u00a0Soli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.80acresfarms.com\/2025\/08\/18\/indoor-farming-leaders-unite-to-build-a-national-powerhouse\/?cn-reloaded=1\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced a merger<\/a> with 80 Acres Farms in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Those affected by 80 Acres Farms\u2019 shutdown include 58 packers, 16 machine operators and 12 assembly technicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio-based 80 Acres Farms is shutting down its operations, including a vertical grow operation on the South Side,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-400201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}