The Mosswood Recreation Center opened its doors once again in Oakland on Saturday, after fire gutted the building in 2016.<\/p>\n
A cloudy Saturday did not stop neighbors from coming out to the brand new Mosswood Recreation Center at Mosswood Park.\u00a0The brand-new facility officially opened its doors to the public.<\/p>\n
The new community center is a two story facility with a social hall, kitchen, classrooms, a maker space, computer lab and improvements to the park.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing, it\u2019s so beautiful inside we\u2019re so excited for playing with her and coming to community events,\u201d said Alexis of Oakland.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could never have imagined that it would turn out this good from what was here before, so even though we never want tragedies like fires to occur in our communities, what we have now is next to nothing that exists right now in the city of Oakland,\u201d Councilmember Carroll Fife said.<\/p>\n
A fire ten years ago tore through the original building, which was built back in the 50s.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was saying earlier the Black Panther Party held many events here and I used to bring my children here, and I know the history of Mosswood Park and the Center, and to see this is like the phoenix rising and it\u2019s really a testament to the community and the community’s resilience and the community’s vision,\u201d Mayor Barbara Lee said.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Investigators still have not determined what caused the fire in 2016, but both city leaders and neighbors say they are ready to put the past behind and look to the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re always looking for Mosswood Park to be a hub we live so close we want it to be our community park, we want to play here, we want to spend time with our neighbors, and so I think this is really going to bring the people out,\u201d said Laura of Oakland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mosswood Recreation Center opened its doors once again in Oakland on Saturday, after fire gutted the building…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-297437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}