Completing a campus the City already approved.
Building 2 finishes the two-building cultivation campus Cathedral City entitled in 2017 — smaller, lower, and better-sealed than originally designed. No new footprint. No new environmental burden. Just 85 new local jobs and a project that's ready to build.
A two-building campus — one built, one ready
This is a Second Amendment to an existing Conditional Use Permit, not a new application. Building 1 has been operating for roughly 18 months. Building 2 completes the campus exactly where the 2017 approval placed it.
Building 1, proven. Building 2, next.
Building 1 is a 325,099 SF indoor cultivation facility, fully operational and serving as the working model Building 2 simply duplicates. Building 2 adds 163,200 SF of indoor cultivation on the same parcel — entitled, permitted, and shovel-ready.
- 1Building 1 — Existing & operating325,099 SF indoor cultivation, in full operation today.
- 2Building 2 — Ready to build163,200 SF, the subject of this amendment — 300 SF smaller than the approved design.
- 1919.09-acre PCC sitePlanned Community Commercial zoning · 315 parking spaces built on site.
Both buildings were already approved in 2017.
Nothing in this amendment asks to add a new building, expand a footprint, or introduce a new use. Building 1 and Building 2 were both approved by the City on September 20, 2017 — the campus the community already reviewed.
The 2017 approval included full CEQA environmental review of both buildings. This amendment introduces no new use, no added square footage, and no new mitigation requirements.
Why activation carries no new environmental burden
The hard questions were answered in 2017. The largest phase is already built and operating without issue. This amendment proposes nothing the original environmental analysis didn't already evaluate.
Entitled in 2017
The Planning Commission approved CUP 16-013 with a full Initial Study / Mitigated Negative Declaration, with the City as lead agency.
CEQA complete
The technical studies assumed a higher employee count and a larger footprint than what's now proposed — a documented worst-case scenario.
Building 1 live
325,000 SF in full operation — the working model Building 2 duplicates, with no new impacts to introduce.
Smaller, lower, and sealed in metal
The amendment is fundamentally about how Building 2 is built — upgrading from the originally approved "glass house" design to materials that contain odor and manage climate far better.
A continuous, sealed metal envelope
Building 2 replaces the original glass-house siding and roof with a Kingspan insulated standing-seam metal system in Imperial White — a continuous, airtight building skin engineered for thermal efficiency and best-in-class odor containment.
- ↓−300 SF footprintShrinks from 163,500 to 163,200 SF — a smaller structure than approved.
- ↓Over 1 ft lowerThe revised roof plan reduces overall building height, lowering its profile from surrounding streets and homes.
- ≋Filtered exhaust at the west endRooftop exhaust is concentrated roughly 600 feet from the nearest home.
What's actually changing: better materials
"Glass House" design
- — Glass-house siding and roof materials
- — Greenhouse-style envelope
- — Higher roofline
- — Less effective at sealing in odor
Sealed metal envelope
- ✓ Sealed metal siding & standing-seam roof
- ✓ Continuous, airtight building skin
- ✓ Lower roofline (over 1 ft reduction)
- ✓ Best-in-class odor containment
Built to today's standards — for the community
Cultivation technology and containment standards have advanced since 2017. Building Building 2 to current standards directly benefits the surrounding neighborhood.
What is not changing
A proven partner, ready to do more
Phase 1 is already one of the city's most significant economic engines. Here's what Building 2 adds on top of that — for Cathedral City and the wider Coachella Valley.
$80M invested. $400M over five years.
This is not a speculative proposal. C4 has already invested over $80 million in the campus — including $10 million on Phase 2 site improvements, utilities, and infrastructure — in good-faith reliance on the City's 2017 approval of the complete two-phase project.
Every dollar already spent was committed on the promise that Phase 2 would be allowed to complete.
Shovel-ready — and waiting
Construction drawings were submitted for plan check roughly two years ago. Every day Building 2 stays idle is local payroll and city revenue that never gets realized.
$11,213 local payroll · $4,219 City revenue
The site today
Building 1 built and operating; the Building 2 site graded and ready; and the infrastructure already in place to serve it.
Nine years of partnership with the City
CUP approved
Planning Commission approves CUP 16-013 with full CEQA / Mitigated Negative Declaration.
City-approved grading
Engineering Department approves the Final Grading Plan — 315 spaces built as directed by City staff.
Building 1 live
325,000 SF reaches full operation; roughly 270 jobs; monthly City taxes begin flowing.
Staff-requested amendment
City staff requests a CUP amendment to the previously approved permit ahead of Building 2 construction.
Ready to activate
Building 2 is shovel-ready. Approval unlocks 85 jobs, $60M in investment, and new City revenue.
Smaller. Lower. Sealed. Ready.
Building 2 completes a project the City approved in 2017 — with improved materials, a reduced footprint, and best-in-class odor containment.
Project figures, renderings, and site photography are drawn from the Second Amendment to Conditional Use Permit No. 16-013 submittal materials and the presentation to the Cathedral City City Council (June 2026). Renderings by Peter Blackburn, Architect (Sheets AR-1 & AR-2). Economic projections use IMPLAN Riverside County Type II multipliers (output 1.5×; employment 2.2×) and are multiplier-derived estimates. © 2026 CC Industry, LLC. All rights reserved.
