n CANNABIS
W
hen the City of Sacramento first approved com-
mercial cannabis activities — beginning with
recreational cultivation ordinances in November
2016 — the municipality was attempting to get
ahead of operators with a proactive, regulatory
framework. Now Sacramento is one of the few jurisdictions in
the Capital Region to move forward with regulations for the
cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, retail and testing
laboratories of commercial cannabis.
With Sacramento quickly becoming a base of operations
for commercial cannabis, the disruption in the industrial
real-estate market has been significant. Entrepreneurs look-
ing to enter the space have flocked to approved zoning areas
primarily clustered in North Sacramento and the Power Inn
neighborhoods with existing concentrations of industrial,
heavy commercial and light warehouse facilities.
That’s sparked an industrial-property frenzy that is driving
up real-estate prices, displacing other commercial tenants and
creating undue concentration in some neighborhoods. Prop-
erty values for commercial space in approved cannabis “green
zones” are roughly double the cost before legalization, with
rents four or five times the norm. Meanwhile, non-cannabis
businesses competing for similar spaces have become casual-
ties in the chaos.
“When you take a step back and look at the totality of the
state of California, you recognize that there are a few hun-
dred blocks of commercial real estate, more or less, in this
state that you can currently operate in,” says Daniel Con-
way, managing partner of Truth Enterprises, an investment
firm in Sacramento focused on the legal weed industry. “So
that alone creates artificial demand that inf lates prices.”
The expense of getting commercial cannabis spaces
and businesses up to regulatory code can be crippling,
pushing out smaller and less-experienced operators. But
some sav v y entrepreneurs say they have found a foothold
by integrating multiple aspects of the supply chain — ei-
ther under the umbrella of one business, one space or both.
With so much ambiguity in the cannabis space, and
so much change expected in the coming months as the
regulated market gets on its feet, these entrepreneurs are
leaning on past knowledge and experience, and a sophis-
ticated approach to get out in front of the ever-changing
market.
REAL-ESTATE CRUNCH
Of California’s 482 municipalities and 58 counties, fewer than
one-third of California cities allow any kind of cannabis busi-
ness to operate within their borders, and approximately 70
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