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2006
Pacific currently has 2,525 charter school sears under development for the fall of 2006. Two-thousand seats are associated with the creation of five schools within 2 major projects, while 525 incremental seats are tied to the final phases of projects which first delivered seats in 2005.
Pacific Saturn LLC
Site: 2071 Saturn Avenue
Neighborhood: City of Huntington Park, three miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles
Seats created: 900 approved, seat capacity of 1020
Tenant: Centennial College Prep, Aspire Public Schools; Huntington Park College-Ready Academy, the Alliance for College Ready Public Schools |
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Description: Pacific has completed the development of 2071 Saturn Avenue. The project is an adaptive re-use of a former manufacturing facility. The innovative school site houses two charter schools that operate independently in their own core classroom space and share centrally located facilities. Aspire Public Schools operates Centennial College Preparatory, a middle school for approximately 400 students, while the Alliance for College Ready Public Schools operates Huntington Park College Ready Academy, a high school for 500 students.
The school site is approximately three acres, with the building totaling about 77,000 square feet. The school has 45 classrooms, a library, administrative offices, physical education facilities, serving kitchens, a parent center, and dedicated specialty classrooms for science instruction. Additional features include increased natural light via skylights and glazing, on-site parking, security fencing and extensive landscaping.
These new seats most directly serve the needs of students that live in the Gage Middle School and Huntington Park High School attendance areas, two schools that are among the most overcrowded in the nation. The 2071 Saturn Avenue school site relieves overcrowding in the City of Huntington Park by increasing seat capacity, providing quality public education options for students, raising educational achievement levels, and providing education on a traditional two- semester academic calendar.
The total project cost is $13.3 million. The school site opened September 2006.
View the Pacific Saturn LLC site plan (PDF).
Pacific 111th & Western LLC – Phase II
Description: Pacific acquired the adjoining property and will build out the space for 325 students to complement the 200-student campus that was created in the fall of 2005. The 21,000 square feet of additional building space included classrooms, a biology lab, a chemistry lab, and a multipurpose room. The work was completed in August 2006 and when combined with Phase I the cost to build the total campus was $12,000 per seat.
Pacific 57th & Crenshaw LLC – Phase II
Description: Pacific will add 200 additional seats to the 600 seats created on this site in 2005’s Phase I. This will include the placing of modular classrooms behind the two main campus buildings.
2023 S. Union Avenue
Site: 2023 S. Union Avenue
Neighborhood: Pico-Union area, just west of downtown LA
Seats created: 875
Tenant: Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools |
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Description: This project is a unique partnership with the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, a premier charter school organization serving low-income families in South Los Angeles. Alliance is the property owner, and Pacific is the developer and one of several acquisition lenders.
This site is an adaptive re-use of a former public storage facility that had been vacant for over a year. The 64,394 square-foot facility sits on 1.35 acres of land and consists of two tilt-up concrete structures built in 1985.
The campus is known as the “Frank E. Baxter Educational Complex.” The north building houses a middle school for 375 students, and the south building will houses a high school for 500 students. The middle school has 15 classrooms and the high school has 21 classrooms. Both schools share an open courtyard, a gymnasium, a library, a multi-purpose classroom, and dedicated specialty classrooms for science instruction.
Through a technical aid grant from Global Green USA (www.globalgreen.org), many of the materials used in the buildings are resource-efficient and ecologically friendly. The property also has drought-resistant landscaping and on-site and off-site parking. While the site itself is not historically significant, it lies within a municipal historical preservation overlay zone, and is located in the heart of an active and ethnically diverse urban residential neighborhood.
These new seats relieve overcrowding at Foshay Learning Center and Manual Arts High School. The total project cost $13.5 million, and the project was completed and occupied in Fall 2006.
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