A new sign is hoisted onto Bread for the City’s expanded headquarters.

If you happened across Bread for the City‘s headquarters on Seventh and Q Streets NW yesterday, you likely witnessed a crane hoisting a big, shiny sign onto a new building.

With the sign in place, the social service organization is readying for the inauguration of a large addition to their currently-cramped Shaw location. The expanded space, which cost $8.25 million, will add 11,000 square feet to the existing 9,000 square feet used by Bread for the City to provide food, medical services and legal advice to over 3,000 low-income District residents a year.

The medical clinic alone will double in size, tripling its capacity to offer free health care while adding dental and vision care for clients. Additionally, Bread for the City’s legal clinic, one of the largest of its kind in the District, will gain dedicated office space.

During a tour of the new facility last week, we were shown one of the most interesting elements of the new space — the green roof. The roof will serve as the area’s first large-scale rooftop agriculture site, with a vegetable garden that will be tended to by clients and serve as a source for the produce used in cooking classes. (A video tour given by Executive Director George Jones features a good shot of the green roof; some pictures can be seen here.)