OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Food Bank for the Heartland opens new facility in Omaha off 84th and L to expand food storage and serve more families across Nebraska and Western Iowa.
- The new building nearly doubles the nonprofit’s previous space and is designed to help the organization serve more neighbors across the 93 counties it covers.
- “We have much larger capacity to store food, especially cold storage food. At our previous location we were storing it in trailers in our parking lot because we had no room in our freezer cooler,” said Brian Barks, CEO and president of the Food Bank for the Heartland.
- The facility, open since Feb. 2, 2026, also features more dock doors, expanded volunteer parking, and one of only a dozen protein repack centers in the Feeding America network.
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The Food Bank for the Heartland has moved into a new $37 million facility at 84th and L streets in Omaha, leaving behind its former home at 108th and J after seven years of planning and development.
The new building nearly doubles the nonprofit’s space and is designed to help the organization serve more neighbors across the 93 counties it covers in Nebraska and Western Iowa…