Marijuana business incubator comes to Tacoma

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Tacoma-based developer George Heidgerken, 74, has a vision. Actually, he has several, and one resides in the center of Tacoma’s industrial district.

He owns the site of the former Abitibi mill on Chambers Creek, and Olympia Beer’s Old Brewhouse in Tumwater, and the Blue Heron Mill site overlooking Willamette Falls outside Portland. He once owned the former federal courthouse in downtown Tacoma, and several years ago he bought some of the assets of the bankrupt Milwaukee Road, including mineral rights, other rights and assorted properties across 13 Northern Tier states.

 

Through a partnership, Heidgerken now owns 22 acres that once contained Nalley Fine Foods in Nalley Valley.

Where Nalley’s once produced lines including pickles, mayonnaise, potato chips and more, now the product is cannabis.

Some of the land will be given to warehousing, what with the benefit of a railroad spur that bisects the...

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