Friendship Campus to hold groundbreaking ceremony
by Garth Meyer The Friendship Campus is about to be built. A public groundbreaking ceremony set for Aug. 10 begins the next chapter of the project, which follows 15 years of work in South Bay schools helping to connect kids with special needs to their peers and society at large. “This is a major milestone for our community,” said Rabbi Yossi Mintz, co-founder of Friendship Foundation, and founder and director of the Jewish Community Center Chabad of the South Bay. “A whole shift coming from here for the rest of the world. Our goal is not to own this, but to inspire others. Many eyes of the world are watching.” The $55 million, 64,000-square foot facility will be built on 3.5 acres at the site of the former Franklin Elementary School, its grounds to connect to adjacent Franklin Park. The Campus will offer job-training, and job skills in a variety of fields, aimed particularly to serve young adults when they leave the public school system at age 22. Companies which have already signed on to participate in training and hiring are Skechers, Chevron, Kinecta Bank, Lakeshore Learning and more. The groundbreaking begins at 5 p.m. next Wednesday with an hour-long ceremony followed by a…
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