Marijuana gets warehouse owners buzzing as Colorado farms thrive

Published May 5, 2014 4:00am ET



It took less than 24 hours for real estate broker Bob Costello to sell a 40,000-square-foot warehouse with a leaky roof in Denver. His client paid cash and plans to turn the property into an indoor marijuana farm.

“It’s totally nuts,” Costello said. “Anything I can find, I can sell immediately. Normally industrial buildings could sit on the market for months or years.”

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