Nourish Pierce County Plans Lakewood Market and Connection Center - nourishpc
After 52 years and 23 distribution sites, Nourish Pierce County is consolidating its work into a permanent 14,705-square-foot campus in Lakewood that will house the region’s first full grocery-style food market, a 1,000-square-foot Connection Center for wrap-around support, and the nonprofit’s first centralized administrative office.
The Connection Center will host housing and utility assistance, SNAP and WIC enrollment, health and dental screenings, financial coaching, and employment navigation, with a navigator on-site to route families to the right resource.
The new admin office is projected to save more than $70,000 a year across the 23-site network.
An orchard and foodscape on the property will anchor nutrition and gardening education, and the location was picked deliberately to serve low-income families, seniors, veterans, and military households from JBLM.