If you have $1.5 million to spend, you can pick up all the equipment you need to start your own vertical farm.
The greenhouse and equipment at the centre of a lawsuit between the greenhouse's current owner and the City of Vancouver is for sale on Craigslist.
Business in Vancouver previously reported on the fate of the equipment, which in the Craigslist ad is pictured still located on the roof of a parking garage owned by EasyPark, a non-profit authority that manages parkades owned or leased by the city.
[Read: City of Vancouver still paying for failed urban farm]
In a counterclaim filed in April, EasyPark claimed the abandoned equipment was causing a health and safety threat and preventing the organization from using the space to generate revenue. EasyPark claimed it had asked the current owner of the equipment to move the greenhouse, with no avail.
That counterclaim was in response to a lawsuit filed in March by Clay Haeber and a numbered company Haeber had set up to take over the assets of the failed business.
Haeber had claimed that the City of Vancouver had backed out of a license agreement to use the EasyPark space to restart the business after finding out Haeber planned to partner with Affinor, a company that has an interest in growing marijuana and vegetables using vertical farming technology.
The vertical farm started operating in the downtown parking garage in 2012 with the support of the City of Vancouver. But in 2014, the farm went bankrupt, owing over $4 million to creditors.
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