Redondo Beach Friendship Campus breaks ground for the future of Special Ed kids
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”2577″ display=”masonry” ngg_triggers_display=”always”]by Kevin Cody “If you want to light a candle, if you want to inspire other people, first you need to be a candle yourself,” Rabbi Yossi Mintz is fond of saying, even when he is unabashedly that candle. Last Wednesday, Rabbi Mintz shared that advice with the more than 1,000 people attending the Friendship Campus groundbreaking. The private school, on Inglewood Avenue in Redondo Beach, will offer vocational training for special needs students. Groundbreaking guests included Skechers CEO Michael Greenberg, Toibb Real Estate CEO Harris Toibb, Schwartz Capital CEO Ted Schwartz, and Gensler Architecture co-CEO Andy Cohen. Friendship Foundation founder Rabbi Mintz with Friendship Campus benefactors Harris Toibb, Mike Kaplan, Anita Bhatia, Michael Greenberg, Ted Schwartz, Jon Hirshberg, and Yosef Gorowitz. Photo by Kevin Cody Those five donors, alone, contributed over half of the $36 million initially budgeted for the Friendship Campus. The budget has since increased to $55 million. Of that, $42.5 million has been raised, well past the 50 percent threshold conventionally raised before construction begins. The…
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