“They’re carpetgrabbers from Colorado that are coming in, swooping up real estate left and right and bulldozing and they just do not care,” Alistair Monroe said."
"The purchase has set up unexpected tensions between artists and cannabis entrepreneurs in East Oakland’s green zone, a largely industrial area where marijuana can be cultivated legally. The cannery is right in the middle of it."
"But Green Sage isn’t the only cannabis company that has displaced artists."
"Former tenant Brett Amery lost his commercial art studio on the ground floor of the cannery last year when he says Harborside bought it fleetingly."
https://www.google.com/amp/cbslocal.com/2018/02/08/artists-oakland-cannery-cannabis-industry/amp
"The Oakland Cannery is just the type of place that the city likes to promote as its heart and soul. The former Del Monte fruit processing facility has for several decades served as a live/work space for painters, musicians, fashion designers, writers and photographers.
Then came Big Cannabis.
The city chose the artists. This month the City Council voted to restrict cannabis businesses from operating in locations previously used as work/live or residential spaces.
Alistair Monroe, a tenant who lives in the building with his 82-year-old father, says they are pleased with the City Council decision but fear that Green Sage could still evict tenants and use the building for other purposes."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/us/california-today-oakland-artists-cannabis.html
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