New amenity in one DC condo: A grow closet for marijuana

WASHINGTON (WJLA) — A new four-level condo in the 500 block of Kenyon Street, Northwest has an amenity like no other condo in the city.

According to Urbanturf.com, the condos contain features that buyers would expect of a new condo. However, one of the units features a "grow closet for marijuana plants."

Eric Hirshfield, the condo developer told Urbanturf, "The closet in the fifth bedroom was a little screwed up. I thought 'What can I do to make this a special closet?"

According to Urbanturf, Hirshfield had a plumber install drainage and a water supply, an HVAC system was put into handle the exhaust, and an electrician installed a grow light.

Urbanturf says, Hirshfield staged the closet with tomato plants and herbs, but also included the Initiative 71 ballot, the measure that D.C. residents supported that resulted in the legal marijuana legislation.

Hirshfield told Urbanturf, "I plan to...

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