Redondo Beach Friendship Campus Celebrates Groundbreaking: Report

REDONDO BEACH, CA — The Friendship Foundation will celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Friendship Campus in Redondo Beach, with construction projected to be finished in 2024, the Daily Breeze reported.

Financial support from local businesses and individuals helped raise more than $40 million for the campus. Announced in 2020, the campus aims to better serve the development of special needs students after high school.

“This building is going to be a shining example for our community and probably for the world,” founder Yossi Mintz told the Daily Breeze.

The campus will be 64,000 square feet on 3.25 acres and will provide students with special needs, "the tools to transform the workforce and find lifelong passion and purpose."

The ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. on Aug. 10 at 850 S. Inglewood Ave, and will end at 6 p.m. followed by a Community Summer Festival at Franklin Park until 8 p.m. Attendees can enjoy performances and music by Friendship Foundation and RSUSD students and volunteers at the ceremony as well as food and other activities at the festival.

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