Beginning with AS Legal Resource Center and AS Isla Vista Tenants Union, Associated Students of UCSB has had a strong presence in Isla Vista. The upstairs of the now-Pardall Center was converted into an office for the Legal Resource Center and Isla Vista Tenants Union. Six years later, Associated Students realized the potential of the space below, so AS members brainstormed the best use of the space that would welcome not only students but all of Isla Vista community members as well. In 2013, Associated Students opened Pardall Center for use by the Isla Vista community, and in 2015, students voted to continue to pay for Pardall Center’s ongoing operations through student fees.

• Interest in a Community Center began in 1977
• Isla Vista Redevelopment agency in 2012 successfully fought to acquire two buildings in downtown IV – the former Saint Athanasius Orthodox Church and the Isla Vista Medical Clinic – in order to respond to the community’s demands for a community center.
• The Self Help Legal Center on the first floor is a community-access, free legal resource program that was implemented and launched by the Legal Resource Center and the Isla Vista Tenants’ Union in Summer 2014.

• Building History itself: 
• Print shop 10-15 years
• Coffee shop
• Chinese restaurant
• 2nd floor likely a residence
• 2007- IVTU/LRC