New high school breaks ground in Granada Hills

A ground-breaking ceremony was held recently for the new high school that will be built on the site of the former Granada Hills Community Hospital, according to the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council Web site.

The new school will create more jobs in the community and relieve overcrowding at Kennedy, Granada Hills, Monroe and Northridge Academy high schools.

The project is set to begin this summer and expected to be completed in the summer of 2011.

Granada Hills Community Hospital closed in 2003 after going bankrupt. LAUSD paid $22.5 million for the 11-acre site at an auction in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, beating out a $21.5 million bid from a Pasadena real estate investment and financial firm that promised to reopen the hospital under a new operator.

For more information, including photos from the ground-breaking ceremony, visit www.ghsnc.org.