Berkeley Humane broke ground on the Bay Area Animal Resource Center (BAARC) at 2700 Ninth St., with Phase 1 set to open after roughly two years of construction. The new facility will feature a 6,000-square-foot medical and adoption center, a 2,500-square-foot dog pavilion and courtyard, a cat care lounge, surgical suites, recovery areas, and a pharmacy. The center will offer behavioral, social, and educational training programs plus expanded safety-net services. An additional 10,000-square-foot expansion is planned around 2028. Expanded capacity will enable more adoptions, complex medical care, extended pet lifespans, and greater disaster-response support.
BERKELEY Berkeley Humane, a more than a century old animal shelter and clinic serving the East Bay and beyond, broke ground on a state-of-the-art facility over the weekend that promises to greatly expand the nonprofit's services. Phase 1 of the new facility, dubbed the Bay Area Animal Resource Center, or BAARC, will open in the same location as the original center at 2700 Ninth St. after a roughly two-year construction process.
The new center will make it possible for Berkeley Humane to place more animals in homes, provide complex medical care to animals who may otherwise go without and help extend a pet's life, bringing comfort to both them and their owners, said Ellen Jacobs, a donor, volunteer and BAARC campaign chair. It's just always an emotional event when any of those things happen. And the thing about BAARC is that BAARC is about making those types of events happen more and more every single day,
More than 4,000 adoptions were facilitated and 19,500 medical procedures performed by Berkeley Humane between 2021 and 2023, according to their latest report. The nonprofit has also distributed 256,000 pounds of food to thousands of homes in need and been supported by about 273,000 volunteer hours between 2019 and 2023.
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