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Senior apartment complex opens food pantry in St. Pete’s historic Jordan Park

St. Petersburg leaders and around a dozen residents of the Legacy at Jordan Park apartments gathered Thursday to celebrate their newest amenity: a food pantry.

It is stocked by several community partners, including the St. Pete Free Clinic and the Boys and Girls Club of the Suncoast. It will open to residents weekly, on Thursdays from 3 to 5 p.m.

 

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