ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — It's a historic day for central Florida's Second Harvest Food Bank. The charity is planning to move into a much-larger warehouse near Old Winter Garden Road and Mercy Drive.
To make way for the new warehouse, which is three times as big as the current one, two buildings will have to be demolished.
After that, the new 100,000-square-foot facility can be built.
The old warehouse is only 30,000 square feet and can only hold 1 million pounds of food at any given time. That may sound like a lot of food, but it's nowhere near the amount Second Harvest needs to be to keep up with demand.
“We do turn away millions of pounds of wonderful, nutritious, holism food that is available to help people in Central Florida,” said Greg Higgerson of Second Harvest.
The new space will cost around $15 million to construct. The charity is still around $3.5-million short.
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