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How Much Does a Greenhouse Project REALLY Cost?
Chris Beytes
Let’s say you’re a young grower ready to go it alone and start your own bedding plant business. You’ve acquired a piece of land and set aside some cash and arranged financing for your very first greenhouse and you’re ready to invest $500,000. You start shopping for structures, thinking that at roughly $10 per sq. ft. (a figure you got from the grower down the street), you can afford as much as an acre (about 44,000 sq. ft.) of greenhouse. Wow! A nice size for starting out!