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LARGE, HISTORIC BUILDING IN HOUSTON TO BE CONVERTED INTO A VERTICAL FARM
Jan. 29, 2024
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| The 32-story Niels Esperson building in downtown Houston. Cameron Management is renovating the building. |
By Janet Miranda, The Chron
As Houston's office vacancies plummet to new lows, one historic landmark building downtown has come up with a creative new way to fill up space: a farm.
Eden Grow Systems, a NASA spinoff, announced that it will open its new vertical indoor farm location in downtown Houston's historic Niels Esperson Building at 808 Travis Street this Saturday. The initiative is part of Esperson Building's aim to become what it calls a "Vertical Entrepreneurial Village" -- a place where people can live, work, and play.
"With commercial real estate continuing to suffer in most major metropolitan areas Eden is pioneering a new and innovative way of taking these spaces and breathing new life into them," said Dougal Cameron, Manager of the Esperson Building. "We see a future where every unused space can be transformed into profitable farms, creating new jobs, better food security, and a healthier way of growing for our planet. This is the future, and we are excited to be a part of it."
Eden Grow will install a 1,200-square-foot showroom vertical farm, accessible by the downtown tunnels, to help Houston area residents learn more about its technology. The hope is to inspire more families to grow their own food, even fish and crustaceans with Eden Grow's system.
The company will convert the building into a vertical farm in phases. The first phase of the transformation will utilize 4,000 square feet. Phase two will see the conversion of an entire floor of the building for a farm totaling around 12,000 square feet, according to Bart Womack, Founder and CEO of Eden Grow.
Vertical indoor farms grow plants without dirt, stacked on shelves under LED lights. Seeds are spread into a nutrient solution that doesn't require compost or mulch. Automated fine mist sprinklers water the crops, controlled by a tablet that sets watering timers and schedules.
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