SAGINAW COUNTY, MI - A new marijuana growth operation based in Saginaw County’s village of Chesaning aims to provide Michigan’s recreational market with high-quality supply - while also making a name for itself nationally with its own products.
Six Labs wants to become a “craft grower” known for its quality products, but produced at a large enough scale to have a multi-state footprint. Think a Bell’s Brewery for cannabis. The company operates a 45,000 square-foot marijuana production facility, which recently produced its first harvests. The lab currently offers its flower products at a dispensary in Hazel Park and one in Buchanan, located in the southwest region of the state, according to its website.
“Our intent is to create multiple lines of cannabis, but as the focal point of what we are, we want to be known as the largest craft grower in the entire country,” said Joe Ori, co-founder and director of communication. “We want to create the highest quality cannabis available... at a larger platform.”
The company was founded by six friends and business associates, Ori said. Ori and his partners saw an opportunity when Michigan legalized recreational marijuana and set out to solve problems they saw in the industry, touring facilities around the country to assess what worked and what didn’t.
“We felt Chesaning was an incredibly favorable community to cannabis,” Ori said. “They are one of the few communities that allow outdoor grows, we are intending to do a rather large one in the spring.”
Six Labs isn’t the first or last cannabis company, Ori said, but it aimed to build a lab as close to pharmaceutical-grade as possible and wants to bring that level of quality to its “craft” products. The company employs almost 50 workers, looks to expand further into Michigan and is applying to operate in Illinois as well, Ori said.
“We do not want to be ‘Walmart weed,’” Ori said. “We didn’t invent the wheel but we’re going to make it better, we’re going to make it more efficient.”
Chesaning has seen a marijuana business boom in the past few years, playing home to multiple production facilities and other establishments. VB Chesaning, or High Life Farms, became the first medical grow company licensed by the state in 2018, a medical grow facility also opened in a long-defunct meatpacking plant in 2019. The first recreational dispensary in the county, The ReLEAF Center, opened in January.
Village Administrator Troy Feltman said transport, testing and grow facilities are operating throughout the community. Businesses like Country Boy Farms have contributed to more than $200,000 in annual licensing fees and roughly $140,000 of additional tax revenue for this fiscal year, he said.
“We currently have 44 licenses in the community, those range both adult-use and medical,” Feltman said. "The only limitation that the village council put on the number of any facilities is retail shops, that was limited to two. Other than that, it’s basically on a merit basis. It’s certainly been a wonderful asset from a financial standpoint, from the village’s perspective,”
The industry has created more than 300 jobs, from staff to professionals doing completed production and processing work, Feltman said. The expansion has had a spillover effect for other local businesses, as the new workers shop at stores and eat at restaurants.
Business continues to expand, with the village council considering three more applications for grow processing soon, Feltman said. Whether the market will become saturated at some point in the future or not, new interest isn’t waning, he said.
“It’s really been an economic driver for us, and given the current state of the affairs during the pandemic, it’s been a real lifesaver for us in terms of keeping the community financially solvent,” Feltman said.
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