Town’s permit values increase after news of cannabis production site
Battleford is already reaping a benefit of the new cannabis production operation coming to town with a boost to building permit values.
At council’s meeting on Monday, Mayor Ames Leslie said the cannabis production building permit reflected a big chunk of the total values with its $20 million price tag.
Leslie said the town had already doubled the amount of what it had last year for permit project values. So with the cannabis operation on top of that, it puts the town permit values in the range of close to $27 million for the year.
“There’s the same amount of permits, I think actually one more than last year at this time, but the value of the permits is double the year to date,” he said.