Nearly a decade after fire gutted the old building, Oakland neighbors are getting their community hangout back. The rebuilt Mosswood Recreation Center throws open its doors tomorrow morning, with tours and remarks from Mayor Barbara Lee and Councilmember Carroll Fife on the schedule.
The new two-story center brings back classrooms, a community hall, a teaching kitchen, a computer lab and a maker space, replacing what was lost in the 2016 blaze. City staff plan free public tours from 10 a.m. to noon so residents can walk through the mass-timber building and hear about programs that will roll out in the coming weeks.
The center stands at 3612 Webster St, tucked inside the 11-acre Mosswood Park. The city lists it as a roughly 12,300-square-foot, two-story community facility that replaces the 1953 building destroyed by fire. According to the City of Oakland, the rebuild is part of a larger master plan for Mosswood Park, which also calls for landscape and circulation upgrades around the site…