Aurora Sky and Aurora Sun are Canadian greenhouses originally built to grow cannabis. Both were built by the firm Aurora Cannabis following the complete legalization of cannabis in Canada in 2018. The company calls them "sky class" facilities.
Aurora Sky is a 100,000 kg per year, cannabis growing greenhouse on Edmonton International Airport property in Leduc County, Alberta. Construction broke ground in June 2017, and it was completed in January 2019. The company closed the Aurora Sun facility in 2020 and reduced its operations at Aurora Sky after several layoffs.
Construction of the Aurora Sun facility in Medicine Hat, which was planned to be 50% to 100% larger, was paused in late 2019.Aurora Sun Cannabis Production Facility, Government of Alberta major projects map, accessed April 29, 2020 If construction were completed, Sun would become the largest cannabis greenhouse in the world.
In May 2022, Aurora announced it would close Aurora Sky. Aurora acquired a majority stake in greenhouse company BevoAgtech, which took over both the Sky and Sun facilities to produce orchids and starter vegetables in 2023.
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