Innovative Industrial Properties, a San Diego-based real estate investment trust (REIT) that deals with medical marijuana growers, acquired an 89,000-square-foot industrial space in Scranton, Pennsylvania, for $5.8 million as part of a sale-leaseback transaction.
According to a news release, Innovative Industrial Property will lease the property to a subsidiary of Vireo Health, a multistate MMJ company.
Innovative Industrial Properties also agreed to reimburse Minnesota-based Vireo up to roughly $2.8 million for tenant improvements to the building, making the investment worth roughly $8.6 million.
Vireo is using the Scranton facility to grow and process medical cannabis.
Here’s what you need to know:
- Innovative Industrial Properties, which trades as IIPR on the New York Stock Exchange, completed two sale-leaseback deals in 2017 for Vireo’s grow and processing operations in New York and Minnesota last year. Those transactions totaled roughly $8.4 million.
- Vireo Health received one of the initial licenses in Phase 1 of Pennsylvania’s MMJ program rollout. The state recently began Phase 2.
- At the end of 2017, Innovative Industrial Properties filed documentation of its intention to raise $100 million.
