California-based Zephyr – owned by Brad Termini, son of Buffalo developer Rocco Termini – is proposing to use the 16,000-square-foot building at 612 Northland Ave. for its job-skills programs that would teach potential hires how to work in the legalized cannabis industry.The proposed programs would be run in conjunction with the adjacent Northland Workforce Training Center, and would complement the expansive new $300 million cannabis cultivation and production facility that Zephyr is building at the Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park.The financial backing from a subsidiary of Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. will bring vast resources to the ambitious project, which was in limbo a year ago as the state moved slowly to legalize recreational cannabis."This is a rapidly emerging and evolving industry that will require a trained workforce to fill jobs in this new market," BUDC wrote in a memo to its board of director from President Brandye Merriweather and Executive Vice President Rebecca Gandour.BUDC staff opted for Zephyr because of what Merriweather and Gandour called "the strong synergy between Zephyr's plan for cannabis workforce development" and the training center, and instead offered SparkCharge a six-month extension of its lease to give it more time to find other space."