With new distribution center on the way, local food bank sells existing one for $12.5M

With available space dwindling at his food bank’s distribution center, Steve Kullberg fashioned offices out of closets and conference rooms for the rapidly growing nonprofit.

“I called it Operation Shoebox. … I got as many as five people sharing one cubicle,” he said.

Kullberg has been chief of staff for the Food Bank of the Rockies since early 2020. The space constraints will soon be a non-issue: The organization has a new distribution center in the works in Aurora and Kullberg is overseeing its build-out.

That necessitated the sale of the food bank’s existing 103,000-square-foot facility at 10700 E. 45th Ave. in Denver’s Montbello neighborhood.

Earlier this month Denver Public Schools paid $12.5 million for the facility. DPS plans to use it for food service purposes.

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