Food bank to build new regional distribution center

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MONTGOMERY – The Regional Food Bank will be relocating from its current Cornwall-on-Hudson facility to a new 40,000-square-foot distribution center in the Village of Montgomery.

The more than $10 million facility should be ready to serve the thousands of local people in need by the first quarter of next year, said Molly Nicol, CEO of the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York.

“There are 179,000 people a month that we serve in the six counties of the Hudson Valley. This will allow us to provide more food and more nutritious food,” she said. “Right now the Regional Food Bank of Northeast New York delivers 50 million pounds of food per year to our neighbors in need; 20 million of those pounds are distributed in the six counties of the Hudson Valley. That 20 million pounds, 12 million of that comes from Latham down to the lower Hudson Valley.”

Nicol said the larger new facility will be able to store that volume without the need to truck it to the area.

A Community Development Block Grant will fund $10.7 million for construction with the remainder coming from philanthropy.

The new facility will be built on land once owned by Nick Fitzpatrick of Aden Brook Agricultural LLC, who gifted the food bank $645,000 to support the project.




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