High-tech housing project to share site with controversial First Nation grow-op [Video]

A federal government agency is funding an experimental housing project on the site of a controversial, large-scale marijuana grow-op in the Haudenosaunee community of Six Nations in southwest Ontario.  

Next Generation Manufacturing Canada, a federal agency under Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada, provided a $3.7 million grant to the Toronto-based construction firm Horizon Legacy for the project. 

Horizon Legacy has partnered with Six Nations architect Brian Porter and his firm Two Row Architect. 

But the project is set for a plot of land shared with a new marijuana plantation that’s facing community pressure to shut down. Legacy Farms has become a lightning rod for controversy in Six Nations since greenhouses began to go up this year. Residents object to its over 70 sprawling greenhouses and the constant traffic of trucks, and are unhappy at the prospect of further large-scale construction in the community, which is about 100 kilometres southwest …