Berkeley Humane broke ground on the Bay Area Animal Resource Center (BAARC) at 2700 Ninth St., with Phase 1 expected after a roughly two-year construction process. The new facility will include 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 provide behavioral, social, and educational training programs and other safety-net services. An additional 10,000-square-foot expansion is planned around 2028. Berkeley Humane facilitated over 4,000 adoptions, performed 19,500 medical procedures, distributed 256,000 pounds of pet food, and logged about 273,000 volunteer hours in recent years. Emergency and disaster animal services will be expanded with the new facility.
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. Once complete, the new center will include a 6,000-square-foot medical and adoption center, 2,500-square-foot dog pavilion and courtyard, cat care lounge, surgical suites, recovery areas, and pharmacy. The center will also offer behavioral, social and educational training programs along with other safety-net services.
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. In addition to caring for animals and supporting pet owners in the Bay Area, the nonprofit has also played a major role during catastrophic natural disasters and emergency events. Those services will also be expanded with the development of the new center, the organization said.
"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," Jacobs said.
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