NY-Based Gotham Greens Unveils $12.5 Million Urban Greenhouse Farm in Providence

NY-Based Gotham Greens Unveils $12.5 Million Urban Greenhouse Farm in Providence

New York-based Gotham Greens joined Governor Gina Raimondo and elected officials on Thursday to preview its new $12.5 million urban farm greenhouse facility under construction on Harris Avenue in Providence.

Gotham Greens, which touts itself as a global pioneer in urban greenhouse agriculture and a leading consumer brand of premium-quality local produce and fresh food products, grows produce using ecologically sustainable methods in technologically-sophisticated, climate controlled, urban greenhouses.

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The $12.5 million project consists of a 110,000 square foot state-of-the-art greenhouse farm that will create approximately 60 permanent and 100 construction jobs.  The project has $1.3 million in Rebuild RI tax credits. 

“Most of the fresh food you all consume — especially fresh produce -- spends an average of 3,000 miles to get your plate. That impacts freshness, flavor, nutrition, quality, and leads to waste. It’s also extremely inefficient and takes a toll on natural resources. Things will change this fall when this facility will start to produce over ten million heads of premium quality leafy green lettuce and herbs in the City of Providence,” said Gotham Greens Co-Founder and CEO Viraj Puri at Thursday’s press event. “This facility will use state of the art proprietary indoor growing technology that uses a fraction of the land, a fraction of the water, and fraction of the energy compared to conventional commodity agri-business.”

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“This is the future,” said Raimondo. “This is what we want. This was a brownfield site that had been vacant for decades and now we’re bringing new life to this area and this site. It is good for the environment - it’s completely sustainable project not only because it’s locally grown food..it’s new innovative technology that’s better for the environment.”

The facility is slated to open in early fall 2019 and will operate year-round.