Work continues to progress at the site of the old Humboldt and District Food Bank which will house a new facility in about three months.

Late last week the old building on the corner of 9th Street and 5th Avenue was demolished to make room for the new facility.

Chair Kevin Reiter says the new building is going to be much more efficient.

"It's going to have a lot better storage, the old facility was a house so it had a bunch of really small rooms and it wasn't very conducive for us to work in there. Every time you went looking for something you would think the case of beans were in one room but no it was in some other room, you had a hard time finding stuff like that."

Reiter explains there was other issues that made the need for a new one evident.

"The new building is going to have a cement floor and it's going to be wide open. Everything will be stored together so all the beans will be in one place, all the soup will be in one place, everything will be together and it will make it so much easier. I even think we will be able to get away with less volunteers in the new building because everything will be organized so much better."

While the new building is constructed they have a temporary site set up at 1726 3rd Avenue, it's a big white shop building with green trim behind the CIM building off 4rth Avenue.

The organization was able to go ahead with the built thanks to a donation made posthumously a couple years ago that they have been holding for this project. 

"It's going to make things so much easier for us," Reiter beamed.

"A lot of us are retired people, it's going to be so nice to have a building that's a lot more conducive to working in and save our backs," he laughed.

You can hear more from Reiter below in his interview with Bolt FM's Clark Stork.