A national animal welfare organization aims to expand its footprint with a proposed Woodbury facility that would provide medical care to homeless dogs and cats.

Best Friends Animal Society, a Utah nonprofit with six centers across the country, proposed plans for a 14,000-square-foot office building on Crossways Park Drive. The nonprofit would convert the space into a site capable of treating animals from a network of shelters along the East Coast. The nonprofit would conduct procedures needed so the pets can be adopted.

Marlan Roberts, executive director of Best Friends Animal Society in New York City, said the organization works with 5,000 shelters and rescue organizations across the country, many of which are underfunded.

“We are looking to create a vital operation to support lifesavi

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