When CEO Erin Pulling thinks about the new Food Bank of the Rockies distribution center, currently under construction in Aurora, what excites her most is the lobby.

This will be no mere entryway. Instead, Pulling calls “a welcoming center” where hundreds of daily volunteers will come to get their assignments. It will have meeting rooms where donors can congregate and glass windows so that visitors can peer into the warehouse and see the food bank’s mission in action.

“It really just is the epicenter,” Pulling said. “It’s a vision of what’s possible and what’s happening.”

The Food Bank of the Rockies broke ground on its new, $75 million distribution center more than a year ago and the project is almost to the finish line. Pulling said the organization has raised 90% of the funds needed

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