Holmes Building Materials is donating an empty warehouse to help save the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program after a car backed into the program’s distribution center, WAFB-TV reports.
The Salvation Army was looking for a space to house and distribute the more than 4,000 Christmas gifts after the program’s usual donation hub inside the Cortana Mall Mervyn’s sustained structural damage, making the building unsafe.
Without a warehouse, the Salvation Army says the program couldn’t have continued. Because Mervyn’s donated its unused space each year, the organization doesn’t have money to rent a new location.
Holmes Building Materials Owner Matt Holmes says the business had been trying to sell their former hardware store location for more than a year before donating the building for the Salvation Army’s use.
