The public got a first look Thursday at the plans a marijuana-growing operation proposed to replace most of the buildings at the old Schering-Plough complex on Route 94 and Morris Farm Road.
Less than 20 acres of the 132-acre site will be developed according to engineer Owen Dykstra. The first building to go up will be about 338,000 square feet, he said, with a second building of about 22,000 square feet, included in phase one of the planned project.
The project would raze all but two of the current buildings on the site, which had been used by Schering-Plough as a laboratory for creation and testing of medicinal drugs.
One of the remaining buildings is planned to house administration while the other saved building is the former caretaker’s residence. That building is located within a zone for residences while the remaining area is zoned for light industry.
The owner of the complex will be Harmony Foundation of New Jersey, which already has a much smaller growing operation in Secaucus as well as two dispensing locations.