Kedren Has Big Plans

Howard Fine

In one of the largest investments in new health care facilities in South Los Angeles over the past decade, South Central-based Kedren Community Health Center Inc. is planning to construct a $150 million inpatient children’s psychiatric facility and integrated health and mental health complex on the site of its former community health clinic that borders the Watts neighborhood.

While square footage and other details are being finalized, the preliminary estimate is that complex will comprise 111,000 square feet spread over three buildings to replace an abandoned 42,000-square-foot Kedren community health facility at 710 111th St. that was established in the 1970s.

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