Voters approve returning ‘mostly-unimproved’ land to Midland Soup Kitchen

MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – Voters have approved a proposition that would allow the City of Midland to convey a 3.74-acre tract of land directly behind the Midland Soup Kitchen Ministries.

"Midland has grown so, so much in the past year, it's something that we're seeing more and more people on a daily basis, but our space is not growing," Midland Soup Kitchen Ministry administrator Nathen Ivey said. "We're ready to change what we need to do and make our outreach and our mission grow even more."

Previously owned by Midland Soup Kitchen Ministry, the portion of land behind the building had been given back to the City of Midland because, at the time, there was no use for it.

"We need to get it developed in order for us to have safer holiday meals. Because we have about a thousand people every single year," Ivey said. "We need that parking first. How we sit right now, we don't own our own parking lots in the ministry right now."