Second Harvest Food Bank has been distributing food to the northwestern counties of Pennsylvania for decades, but never quite like this.
A new, roughly 400-square-foot marketplace that has been in the works for nearly two years, has opened, tucked into the UPMC Health Plan Neighborhood Center at 803 East Ave. Right now, it allows 30 families a week to shop in the space, stocked with fresh food, dry goods and household staples.
Second Harvest Food Bank CEO Greg Hall called this “a pretty big deal” for the organization…