Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Land Entitlement Secrets for Cannabis Ops #shorts

14 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this short talk, Tommy Dobczyk explains a financing approach for a large cannabis development. He references a 700‑acre parcel that already has a lender lined up for the operational side, and an additional 600+ acres that still require entitlement work. Because land acquisition and entitlement cannot be funded simultaneously, he proposes stacking similar projects into a pipeline and raising about $1 million in total, using small $50‑$100 k tranches as funds become available. This structure aims to bridge the funding gap and enable the entitlement work to proceed alongside land purchase.

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Are you in the deal room? We were talking to these guys yesterday, as a matter of fact, with the 700 acres. I got them in tune or touched with a lender who can do their cannabis operation. And what we end up with is we end up with the other 600+ acres that need entitlement work, right? And so we can't get the money for the land and the entitlement at the same time. So this would be a perfect project for that to happen. And then what we would do is we would stack that pipeline with these types of projects to the point that we need $1 million right now for it. And as, as the funds come in, it can be satisfied because it's— we only need them in like $50,000 to $100,000 tranches.