Blum Holdings Inc (BLMH)

[BriarPatch]

DP on Cali...

“We expect to achieve a footprint within California markets throughout 2018 that allows for us to produce 20,000 pounds of product per year of cannabis. In Oakland, let’s start there, we’re currently constructing a 13,000-square-foot cultivation facility. That will be coming online later this year. That facility, in and of itself is gonna have the ability to produce one metric ton of cannabis per year. We received a provisional cultivation permit in Q2 2017 and expect to be fully operational by mid-2018.

This location will obviously supply our Bloom Oakland dispensary, which has been operated by us since April 2016 after we acquired it, and we’ve got a great location. There, again, we’re seeing about a thousand patients a day out of our retail footprint in the Oakland marketplace. And this will, again, feed the IVXX brand through multiple stores, but it’ll be a great driver of product with low margins through our retail footprint in Oakland, California.

Santa Ana, as you know, we acquired a dispensary there. The fourth quarter was full first quarter revenues for us out the of Santa Ana location. We’ve got great brand recognition down here in the Southern California marketplace. I think people have been waiting for the Bloom and the IVXX brand to arrive in SoCal for some times. Santa Ana has created a great platform for us to be able to build a significant business down here. They’ve taken a spot leadership standpoint to be the Southern California hub for cannabis activities.”

“on February 1st, we submitted applications to open two additional retail dispensaries in Santa Ana, and we expect the city to announce whether these are approved in the next couple of months. In San Leandro for some of the new people joining the call, we’ve been contracting a new Bloom dispensary, as well as an extraction facility, laboratory, and commercial kitchen.

That is currently underway. They’re gonna open up a different time. The retail facility will open up some time in May, and then we’re thinking the latter part of Q2, early Q3 for the extraction in the facility to go along with that. We think those are gonna be great facilities for us, but we’ll start to see some revenue being driven out of the retail position, we’re hoping sometime in May depending on the local and state licensing”

“…in California, we have our Oakland retail dispensary; we have our Santa Ana retail dispensary, and we have our San Leandro retail dispensary that we’re gonna be opening up here in the not too distant future. But in condition to that, we have the large-scale cultivation facility that we’re building in Oakland right now. We have the onsite cultivation facility that’s part of our Oakland campus. It’s not gigantic, but it produces a couple million dollars of produce on an annual basis. That facility has been in operation for some time now.

But in addition to that, we’ve just purchased a large-scale facility down here in Santa Ana California. We bought an 11.5-million-dollar campus in Santa Ana, where we applied for new retail permits. And as soon as they open up the opportunity to apply for additional cultivation and extraction permits, we’re going to hopefully be building out a large-scale complex and campus down here in Southern California that will house extraction and cultivation, as well as an unbelievably located retail storefront on an very major busy intersection for us here in the Santa Ana marketplace.

So we acquired 44,000-square-feet on three acres, and we’re going through the permitting process there right now. And, again, that’ll be another use of capital over the next year and a half to build all these facilities out, so that we can obviously expand our cultivation and footprint our extraction footprint and be able to have enough product out there to service our existing retail footprint, but also to have a strong wholesale presence in the marketplace throughout California.”

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