Central Los Angeles : Foundation for Blind Plans to Fix Campus

Rebuilding this old school is a lot harder and more expensive than simply moving. But the Foundation for the Junior Blind, a nonprofit organization that serves about 4,000 blind and visually impaired children and their families, would rather fix than switch.

The foundation is planning a $10-million expansion at its Windsor Hills campus.

In about two years, the new two-story building will house a children’s residential center, a dining hall and extra administrative offices.

The building also will offer expanded education services for those who live at the hilltop campus, a former military school dating from the 1920s.

The foundation has been a fixture in the community since locating there in 1963. Its board of directors decided to remain in the middle-class, residential neighborhood despite the high costs of renovating many of the buildings.

“It’s been tough because these are hard economic times,” spokeswoman Dena Schulman said. “But we have a tremendous commitment to the school and this community.”. . .