BROOKVILLE, Pa. (EYT) — The new medical marijuana cultivation facility in Brookville will be located in the industrial park on Service Center Road.

Cresco Yeltrah LLC co-founder Kent Hartley announced additional information on Wednesday concerning the facility.

Hartley’s company bought a 12-acre site that includes a building that previously housed St. Marys Carbon.

“We will use the current building to begin and build out the interior. We anticipate we will grow into a new facility in the second or third year,” Hartley said.

Cresco Yeltrah announced it was beginning work at a 46,000 square foot grow center in Brookville after being awarded a medical marijuana cultivation license on Tuesday as part of the Pennsylvania Compassionate Medical Cannabis Program.

The facility will open no later than December 20, 2017. State regulations require the facility has to be operational six months from the date of approval, which was June 20, 2017.

“We plan to have it up and running before then,” Hartley said.

Hartley said there will be about 20 to 40 employees working at the facility in the first six to nine months, then 50 to 60 by year two, and 80 to 100 by year three.

Hartley said people who are interested in applying to work at the facility can go to the company website at crescoyeltrah.com and send a message.

“In the beginning, we are looking for people with expertise in agriculture or horticulture as we begin the growing process,” Hartley said. “Then we will look to hire others as begin harvesting and the process to make medicinal marijuana.”

Cresco Yeltrah has applied for three dispensary licenses in Butler, Allegheny, and Westmoreland counties, meaning the marijuana grown in Jefferson County won’t be sold there.

“But, there are companies that have applied for dispensary licenses, and I anticipate that there will be one located in the area,” Hartley said.

Hartley said patients who have a medical marijuana card can buy up to two months supply.

“I think there will be a slow ramp-up for patients getting their cards, and then it will move forward from there,” Hartley said.

He also said he anticipates his company’s website having a short video in the next few weeks that will explain how to get a card.

All growing will take place in a secure and climate-controlled environment to ensure consistency in harvests and prevent outside factors from affecting growth.

Cresco Yeltrah was one of 12 medical marijuana growers/processors awarded a permit by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

The application was submitted by the Hartley family of Butler County, Pa., who partnered with Chicago-based Cresco Labs, one of the nation’s leading multi-state medical cannabis operating companies.

Out of over 175 applicants in Pennsylvania, Cresco Yeltrah’s proposal received the second highest score.

Cresco Yeltrah will develop a cultivation facility that will grow and harvest condition-specific strains of medical marijuana and produce non-invasive delivery methods to qualified patients.

Through sophisticated extraction methods, the facility will produce pharmaceutical-grade oral sprays, sublingual digestible tablets, transdermal patches, and other forms of cannabis oil to provide users with a consistent, controlled dosage.

Cresco Yeltrah’s brand name products will be available at dispensaries across the state to patients who have been physician-certified with any of the 17 approved medical conditions.

“It is our intention to set the bar on corporate citizenship by focusing on philanthropy, education, and product development and research,” said Cresco Yeltrah co-founder Trent Hartley.