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Lettuce at $100 a head

It has to be one of the most expensive ways to raise vegetables ever considered. It could never pay off the capitol investment.

The cost of such a complex, glass intense design in Chicago is probably more than $500 per square foot. The minimum would be $200 a square foot. That is from 87 million to 218 million dollars an acre.

The cost of the most productive vegetable producing land in America is in Yuma County, Arizona, at about $30,000 per acre. It is irrigated and produces several crops per year, essentially being in production all year. The insanity of such a urban skyscraper project, roughly 2-5 thousand times as expensive in producing food, is very weird.

I guess the thought is the ambiance is worth it.