School Set to Rebuild Quake-Damaged Gym
More than seven years after the Northridge earthquake badly damaged the gymnasium at Kennedy High School, the Granada Hills campus will finally get a new $7-million gym paid for by the federal government, but it will not be ready for another 10 months.
Hundreds of students joined teachers, parents and district officials in a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday on the dirt field that will eventually be occupied by the state-of-the-art gym.
The Granada Hills campus was among Los Angeles Unified’s hardest hit schools in the 1994 earthquake. A destroyed three-story structure that housed administrative offices and classrooms was replaced with two buildings in 1998 at a cost of $7 million to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
