JASPER, Texas —
The Southeast Texas Food Bank is planning on moving into it's new facility in Jasper within less than six months.
The food bank will be sharing the 68,000 square-foot facility at what will become the J.H. Rowe Resource center with the the Jasper Newton County Public Health District.
The food bank released some new photos of their space in the facility on Thursday morning on Facebook.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The above video first aired in March 2023.)
Formerly the home of J.H. Rowe Intermediate School the facility consist of four buildings. One will house the food bank and another will house the health district according to Jimmy Sparks, chief administration officer of the food bank.
Currently the plan is that the food bank will move in to its space sometime this summer and the health district will move in this fall Sparks told 12News on Thursday.
Southeast Texas Food Bank's J.H. Rowe Resource Center close to completion
Residents from Tyler, Jasper, Newton and Sabine Counties will be served by the food bank from its new Jasper location according to file stories.
It's hoped that eventually the J.H. Rowe Resource Center will become a "one-stop shop" for other services that may needed by residents by adding them into the other two buildings Sparks said on Thursday afternoon.
The resource center is part of a three-phase project.
Phase one, which was paid for by a $1 million project grant from the American Rescue Plan, included a 4,000-square-foot office in Beaumont with phase two being the Jasper project.
The Beaumont location will house phase three, which is a 30,000 to 40,000 square-foot building with climate controls and refrigeration for food.