Hi All,
My wife recently needed to find a place to lease so her business has a legit commercial address. She works entirely from home however, so instead of renting an office space she would never use, she found a good deal on a small 750 sq ft warehouse type property with a wide roll-up door, concrete floors, high ceiling, bathroom and shop sink.
My wife’s business focuses on e-learning and corporate training, so when we viewed the property I asked the landlord if he would be OK with the property being used for education/training/classes on hemp processing that may involve things like ethanol extraction, distillation, chromatography etc, just to see if he would be cool with cannabis related activities occurring on his property and surprisingly he was all for it and even seemed slightly enthusiastic about the prospect.
The property is located in Brighton Colorado in an industrial zoned area and the neighbors who share the building are primarily hispanic-owned auto shops (mechanics, tinting, tires, detailing, etc). There is a 200 amp breaker box with several 120v outlets and two 220v outlets.
Now my Help Support / Request is for some suggestions on what you all think would be the best use of this space.
I had a thought of maybe an informal training lab that could provide people with hands-on opportunities for things like short path / wiper assembly & operation w/ diff pumps, water washing techniques with sep funnels /reactors, flash / vacuum chromatography w/ different columns and filter media etc.
My goal would be for the training/classes to have a strong focus on safety. The training materials would be partly derived from some of my favorite O Chem texts and lab manuals for a more academic feel. I would also want the classes to priced in a way to be accessible to almost anyone.
I was thinking in the area of around $80 for a 4hr class and $150 for an 8hr class, but a concern of mine is whether or not there are even enough people that would be interested in something like this at those prices to make it worth while.
Most of my equipment is already moved over, so I figure worst case scenario I can just set up a little R&D workspace for myself so I have a better place to run my equipment and experiment.
Sorry if this was long winded, just a thought I had and very much open to suggestions.