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Sikeston based, Bootheel Food Bank will move their
main operations office and warehouse to Cape Girardeau, according to
Executive Director, Karen Green. Presently located in leased facilities
at 104 Keystone Drive in Sikeston, the agency distributes food to a
network of 140 not-for-profit hunger relief agencies in 16 counties of
Southeast Missouri.
Tom Kelsey, commercial broker with Lorimont Place,
Ltd. in Cape Girardeau, who handled the real estate transaction,
confirmed the Food Bank had contracted for a 25,700 square foot building
located on 3.6 acres at 3920 Nash Road in
Cape Girardeau, directly west of the I-55 Airport Exit interchange.
The building, initially being leased with a purchase arrangement
will give the Food Bank 5,640 square feet of operations offices and
another 20,600 square-feet of warehouse area.
The building is owned by the Jerry Lipps family.
The
area agency is a partner member with America's
Second Harvest, a national organization that is the largest
charitable hunger-relief organization in the country addressing the
problem of domestic hunger. Nationally, they distribute more than 2
billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually to more
than 25 million hungry people in the United States, including 9 million
children and nearly 3 million seniors.
Sources of food and related products come from national and local
donors as well as United States government programs.
The
Bootheel Food Bank annually distributes over three and half million tons
of food in their 16 county service area.
The board of directors decision to move the regional organization
from Sikeston to Cape Girardeau was based on several factors, including
the availability of a suitable facility, being located more central to
the relief agencies they supply and the opportunity to be closer to
volunteer workers and corporate food and related food product donors.
Kelsey
said it was his understanding they would begin immediately moving into
the new Cape facility that is ready for occupancy. The building
was originally built by the Lipps family and formerly housed Capital
Supply. The open spanned
industrial building with various loading docks and overhead doors would
require very little modifications to accommodate the agency.
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