Marijuana leaf photo by Elsa Olofsson via Unsplash; VV archive page; RCB VV collage
With the legal cannabis tidal wave on the verge of hitting NYC in the not too distant future, Gotham’s longtime real estate minds are helping this emerging industry get its ducks in a row.
With thousands of applications expected, there is a race to score the best potential retail space early. The team at Cannabeta Realty has decades of real estate experience in the city with a side of pot activism.
Founder Matte Namer has nearly twenty years of pot activism experience locally and has been working on federal efforts since his college days. Namer is also the owner of Hotel Grand Union, the Principal of Alfa Development, and the co-founder of Gallery 151. I have known Namer since 2006 when we met at a Students for Sensible Drug Policy Conference at SUNY New Paltz.
When the time to start thinking implementation and not just legalization finally came to NYC about six months ago, Namer was ready. “Since my real estate career has had a geographic focus really in New York and New Jersey, we sort of needed a bit of a change in regulations for Cannabeta to be born,” Namer told the Voice. “We’ve sort of been talking about it for years here and we were kind of hoping this was going to happen much sooner here. It’s kind of ridiculous it took as long as it did. But I think once New Jersey…
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Marijuana leaf photo by Elsa Olofsson via Unsplash; VV archive page; RCB VV collage
With the legal cannabis tidal wave on the verge of hitting NYC in the not too distant future, Gotham’s longtime real estate minds are helping this emerging industry get its ducks in a row.
With thousands of applications expected, there is a race to score the best potential retail space early. The team at Cannabeta Realty has decades of real estate experience in the city with a side of pot activism.
Founder Matte Namer has nearly twenty years of pot activism experience locally and has been working on federal efforts since his college days. Namer is also the owner of Hotel Grand Union, the Principal of Alfa Development, and the co-founder of Gallery 151. I have known Namer since 2006 when we met at a Students for Sensible Drug Policy Conference at SUNY New Paltz.
When the time to start thinking implementation and not just legalization finally came to NYC about six months ago, Namer was ready. “Since my real estate career has had a geographic focus really in New York and New Jersey, we sort of needed a bit of a change in regulations for Cannabeta to be born,” Namer told the Voice. “We’ve sort of been talking about it for years here and we were kind of hoping this was going to happen much sooner here. It’s kind of ridiculous it took as long as it did. But I think once New Jersey…
