Feeding South Dakota recently announced plans to expand to a 50,000-square-foot facility in northwest Sioux Falls as a part of their goal to increase their food distribution by 50 percent.

The original plan was to stay in the current building and grow from there, but a better opportunity came up that made sense.

Statewide, Feeding South Dakota currently distributes 10.2 million meals annually, just over half of the meals come out of the Sioux Falls facility alone.

Due to the fact that the new facility will be located further from central Sioux Falls, they’ll begin providing a monthly food distribution in a new, high-need area of the community.

The plan is to complete construction of the new building by June 2016.

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