The Midnight Mission, an independent social-service agency, is relocating in Downtown Los Angeles to Sixth and San Pedro streets. Scheduled for completion in December 2004, the expansion is being designed by the architectural firm of Gin Wong Associates and is one of the largest homeless service projects to get under way in Downtown L.A. in a decade.

The expanded facility will triple the size of the Mission's operation. In addition to a food kitchen, dining room, and lavatories, it will include off-street meeting areas, a library, classroom training facilities, a dormitory area for 300, a gymnasium, a clothing distribution center and job placement center, as well as office space for our management and warehouse space for donations.

Snyder Langston is providing preconstruction services, value engineering and general contracting of the shell and core of the three-story facility, which will include one level of below-grade parking, steel columns and concrete walls framing, and an exterior featuring a combination of smooth and split-face concrete masonry units.

The Midnight Mission was founded in 1914 to provide a means for residents of Skid Row to get back to mainstream life. It provides three meals a day to more than 2,000 people, along with a broad range of emergency and rehabilitation services.