Evelyn Rossetti-Ryan sees magic in a gutted former bank building on Marco Island.
Sometime in mid to late 2025, the San Marco Road building, a former Fifth Third Bank, will become the permanent home of Our Daily Bread food pantry. Rossetti-Ryan is executive director of the nearly 10-year-old charity that has outgrown its borrowed home at Family Church on Winterberry Drive.
“We have maxed out this space, and we make magic in this space, but we are very, very, very excited to move into our new home next year,” Rossetti-Ryan said while giving a tour of both new and old spaces, about 2.5 miles apart on the largest of the Ten Thousand Islands in Southwest Florida.
Food Pantry has $8 million fund-raising campaign
Our Daily Bread purchased the building at 1818 San Marco Road in October 2023 for $3.025 million, according to Collier County property records. A year later, the nonprofit purchased the empty lot next door for $1.1 million…