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Expanding Hope of the Valley Gets New Headquarters

Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission has relocated from its head office space in Pacoima and entered into a rent-to-own agreement for a building in North Hills, celebrating the move with an open house Thursday evening.The new headquarters, at 16641 Roscoe Place in North Hills, is nearly 25,000 square feet and will house the nonprofit’s administrative and finance teams, development and communications departments, as well as programs and operations staff. The organization, which provides housing and social services for Valley residents experiencing homelessness, has expanded rapidly over the last year.Hope of the Valley president Ken Craft said the organization plans to build a commercial kitchen in the new property, capable of producing more than 2,000 meals a day for those in need. The nonprofit has partnered with Global Restaurant Design to configure the addition.The Pacoima building, which contains Hope of the Valley’s emergency shelter and current kitchen on the ground floor, is 8,000 square feet, about a third the size of the new facility. The upper floor of the old headquarters is currently empty, but Craft said his organization plans to expand its programmatic offerings to fill the space.“As we've continued to grow and provide greater services to people experiencing homelessness, it requires different levels of management,” Craft said.“At the end of 2020, we had nine shelters and 507 beds. At the end of this year, we will have 16 shelters and 1,552 beds. So with that increase, we have to manage it well.”In the last year Hope of the Valley has opened four tiny home projects, including the new Tarzana community which opened this month. The organization is also developing a shelter in the former Skateland building in Northridge, to be called the Trebek Center.

Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert is a Los Angeles-based reporter covering retail, hospitality and philanthropy for the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. In addition to her current beat, she is particularly interested in criminal justice topics, health and science stories and investigative journalism. She received her AA in Humanities from Moorpark College in 2016, her BA in Communication from Cal Lutheran University in 2019 and followed it up with a MA in Specialized Journalism from USC in the summer of 2020. Through her work, Katherine aspires to help strengthen the fragile trust between members of the media and the public.

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