F.O.R. has 2 months to find new home

With construction of the overpass looming, F.O.R. Maricopa food bank Director Wendy Webb said Arizona Department of Transportation has given the organization until early May to vacate its current location on John Wayne Parkway at Garvey Avenue.

ADOT will demolish the building, formerly a Pinal County Sheriff’s Office substation and jail, to make way for the overpass.

This extension comes after ADOT imposed two prior deadlines on the food bank. Webb said the department originally told her the food bank would need to leave by the end of March. Then, Webb said ADOT moved the date up to the end of February, prompting an anxious search for a new location.

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