Construction Begins:
2010
Your Gifts to Date:
$14 Million
Phase One Goal:
$25 Million
History
In January 2004, the St. Monica Catholic Community began a long series of workshops, brainstorming sessions and needs analysis and resource meetings to determine the future of its campus. Hundreds of volunteers from nearly every part of the community – the parish, the St. Monica Catholic High School, and the St. Monica Elementary School – participated. The result of that extensive process is the Master Site Plan, detailed here.
Community Center ↑
A Community Center – to be shared by the parish and both schools – will be four times the size of the current Pastoral Center. Built for both large and small group assembly, and to support St. Monica’s strong lay involvement, it will contain a large assembly area, a bookstore and coffee café, a Children and Student afterschool room, a large catering kitchen, dedicated space for those in need, and a beautiful new chapel.
Parking Structure →
Cars don’t have souls, but they can bring souls to worship. St. Monica will address its chronic and serious parking problems with a two-level subterranean parking garage, under the Community Center.
High School Addition ←
Classrooms (on the second floor) and space for the High School’s Campus Ministry and the parish’s Youth Ministry (first floor) are included in this addition to the High School East building. The second floor of the Trepp Center will include new labs for the St. Monica Elementary School.
Gymnasium →
As funds permit, the Gymnasium — which at present is inadequate for the many school teams that require its use, and for school assembly — will be renovated with a new floor, crisp and beautiful acoustics and aesthetics, and modern physical education space underneath.
Phase Two calls for renovating the Elementary School, the High School West building, and the Auditorium.
St. Monica already has a significant outreach to the poor and hurting, here in Santa Monica and in the Third World. The new
Community Center will have dedicated space for Help at the Door, and, with your generosity, the Campaign will dedicate additional funds toward St. Monica's ministries in Africa, Tijuana and locally in Santa Monica.