Community food pantry
& thrift shop
caring for our community
With help from the Homestead Development Corp. both the Lake Placid Ecumenical Food Pantry and the shuttered Helping Hands Thrift Shop will have a new home by 2025.
A 3,000 square foot building is slated to go up where the Lake Placid Central School District’s basketball courts are currently located, next to the Shipman Youth Center. New basketball courts will be installed in a different location. The new building will house the food pantry on one side and the thrift shop on the other, with a basement space for community meetings and a garage area to store secondhand furniture for the thrift shop.
The total project cost is around $850,000 and is will be publicly funded in addition to grants from organizations like the Local Enhancement and Advancement Fund (LEAF).
