Participants in the Job Corps program earn high school diplomas and get job training in skills ranging from welding to healthcare. Other plans include a culinary-arts training center, a vocational-training building, a recreation facility, more housing and a small park. It would be the first building in what YWCA officials hope will become a campus that covers the entire block. The new building would include a cafeteria and medical facilities, along with classrooms, child care, offices and a library. The YWCA move is another boost for the South Park area of downtown that has seen substantial real estate development since the completion of Staples Center in 1999, Sample said.įunds for the Job Corps building will come from a variety of sources, including the Los Angeles Redevelopment Agency, Washington said. The Olive Street property where the new Job Corps building is expected to be built is being sold in two parcels by L&R Parking and the Irving Horowitz Trust, said real estate broker Phillip Sample, a principal of Newmark of Southern California who represented the YWCA. It also would bring 130 students from the Studio Club, a Hollywood landmark designed by architect Julia Morgan that opened in 1926. The new building would allow student-residents to move from the former Case Hotel, a nearby tower built in 1926 that has housed the program for 39 years. About 900 people, about 60% of whom are women, participate in the Los Angeles program annually, said Faye Washington, chief executive of the YWCA of Greater Los Angeles. The new Los Angeles Job Corps Center would house 400 residents in a federally administered program that provides job training for low-income and so-called at-risk people between the ages of 16 and 24. Facing Olive Street between Olympic Boulevard and 11th Street, the building is scheduled to be completed in 2006. expect to complete the $3.5-million purchase of one square block by the end of this month and break ground in the fall on a seven-story building with 150,000 square feet. The YWCA is planning a $40-million development in downtown Los Angeles that would put the organization’s Job Corps training program in a new facility after four decades in an old hotel.Įxecutives of the Young Women’s Christian Assn.