Friendship Campus Imagines the ‘Unimaginable’
Twelve years ago, Rabbi Yossi Mintz had a dream.
Mintz, the founder and director of the Jewish Community Center Chabad of the South Bay, envisioned a state-of-the-art facility where cutting-edge research, technology, and expertise would help people with special needs carve pathways into society.
Statistics pointed to a need for this kind of place, and still do. Schools offer programs for students with special needs, but 75 percent of neurodivergent high school graduates don’t meet four-year college admittance requirements. Eight in 10 neurodivergent Americans are unemployed.
Last week, the rabbi’s dream went public, in the form of a press release and renderings of a $36 million facility with a 55,000 square-foot footprint. This week, a developer signed on the line to build this at 850 S. Inglewood Ave. in Redondo Beach. The project is expected to be complete by 2022.
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