Half Moon Bay, California-based Bay City Flower Company, a major grower of flowers for the national marketplace, has announced plans to shutter operations on November 10, 2019, and in the process laying off 195 employees.
The company’s two locations, one in Half Moon Bay, California and Pescadero, California are on the market. The facilities are appropriately zoned and feature greenhouses that would perfect for the cultivation of a valuable cash crop such as cannabis.
According to the Company’s CEO, Harrison Higaki , “It has become increasingly difficult to run a flower farm and compete nationally while operating in the costliest place in the nation. After four generations and 110 glorious years in floriculture, we at Bay City Flowers Company have decided that the time has come for us to wind down the selling of our flowers.”
Another fourth generation family owned agricultural business priced out of existence by operational costs.
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