HOLYOKE — The Eureka Ruling & Binding building, a hulking red brick mill at 110 Winter St. in the city’s industrial Flats neighborhood, recently was sold to new owners with plans to create a marijuana business in the Paper City.

The 129-year-old Eureka — now known as Eureka Lab Book — now makes its line of notebooks for laboratory, engineering and professional use at 207 Hendee St. in Springfield, according to its website.

Eureka built the mill at 110 Winter in 1890, according to an online historical preservation plan for city of Holyoke. It was part of a wave of industrial expansion coinciding with the construction of the final portions of Holyoke's hydropower canal system from 1888 to 1893.

Today, only a few paper-related companies are left in Holyoke. And city hall wants to attract the new marijuana industry to locate there and make use of hydroelectricity from that same canal system and of the large mill buildings from the industrial age.

The Hapgood family, owner of Eureka Lab Book, sold 110 Winter St. in November to High End Management Co. for $299,000, according to documents on file at the Hampden County Registry of Deeds.

The building had been for sale since at least 2017, according to online announcements. Online directories list 110 Winter St. as Eureka’s business address as recently as that year.

The four-story mill totals 44,000 square feet, according to real estate listings.

Helen Gomez Andrews is the executive who signed High End Management's $330,000 mortgage on the property with Private Capital Funding LLC of Queens Village, New York.

Andrews, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, spoke in February to the Holyoke City Council about her plans for High End Chocolate. She said she wants to sell “artisanal, wellness-oriented, cannabis-infused” chocolate.

High end would grow and manufacture at 110 Winter, Andrews told the city at the time.

High End Chocolate would buy milk from area dairy farms, she told the council.

She couldn’t be reached Monday.

High End doesn’t appear on an 11-page list provided by the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission of marijuana companies that have either received licenses, applied for licenses or are someplace in the middle of the process.

Marcos A. Marrero, Holyoke’s director of planning and economic development, said Monday that High End has not submitted anything to the city, either.

One company — GTI, or Green Thumb Industries — is already manufacturing in Holyoke in a factory at 28 Appleton St., near the Eureka Building.

Six other companies are also in the application process, and another six to 12 have expressed interest in applying, Marrero said.

Holyoke changed its zoning in 2017 to allow recreational marijuana businesses in the industrial district, Marrero said. That zoning, he said, is why it makes more sense for a book company that can be anywhere to move out and a cannabis business to move in.

“What’s happened is that the real estate has become hot,” Marrero said.