School to be Built on Granada Hills Hospital Site

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education has approved a plan to construct a high school on the site of the Granada Hills Community Hospital. Plans call for a 1,215-seat high school costing about $89 million for the site at Balboa Boulevard and San Jose Street. The project could open as soon as 2011. The district, which bought the property in bankruptcy court in 2004, said the new school would help alleviate overcrowding at several areas schools. The plan has been criticized from some in the community who argued a hospital would better serve the area than an educational facility. The 155-bed hospital closed in 2002.