NeighborImpact held a groundbreaking in Redmond Friday for a new food bank warehouse to replace its current, 30-year-old warehouse.
The food bank stores and distributes nearly 4 million pounds of food each year around Central Oregon.
The nonprofit has secured almost enough money for a more than 10,000-square-foot warehouse, but they’ve got a little further to go.
“The warehouse expansion has been a dream of ours and in planning phase for the last two years so we have just a little over $200,000 left to raise out of a $5 million project. So it’s enough to begin our groundbreaking,” said Carly Sanders, Food Program Director for NeighborImpact.
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The new warehouse will be able to store around 173,000 more pounds of food at any given time.
They expect construction to be complete by June 2024.
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