Rob Gianadda's 13-year-old startup business is growing a lot. A lot of mushrooms, that is.
So much so that Gianadda's company needs a lot more space to continue growing, harvesting and producing the fungi and mushroom-related products that it now makes and sells from a smaller food incubator on Chandler Street.
Flat 12 Mushrooms, which Gianadda started in 2012 in the basement of his Elmwood Village home, is ready to expand from North Buffalo into new digs on the grounds of the Northland Corridor industrial campus on Buffalo's East Side.
The company currently operates alongside other food-related startups in entrepreneurial space at 37 Chandler St. But it needs much more room to produce the lion's mane mushroom, which has become the basis for new mushroom-based patty and nugget products that the company is selling to school districts, including Buffalo Public Schools.
Gianadda is eying a pair of linked industrial buildings at 612 Northland Ave., with a total of 28,639 square feet of industrial space, that it would lease for 10 years. The property, also known as 606 Northland, includes a 15,700-square-foot building – which had been briefly leased by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery during construction of the new Buffalo AKG Art Museum – and a 12,939-square-foot building currently under construction and renovation.
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