February 2025 Update

Address: DRUM ROLL PLEASE...... The city has designated an official address for our Shul property: 6523 E. Alaska Drive.

This means that we have progressed to the point that the city has combined the 3 lots that comprise our Shul property, combining our beautiful future campus into one address!

Site Development Plan: At the beginning of February we completed the task of addressing comments from the city and submitted the second round for our Site Development Plan.

We hope to hear back in the next two months on any further tweaks they may need.

You can see the updated plans at this link. Although much of it is beyond the understanding of us mere laypeople, it's amazing to see how much detail goes into these plans, underscoring the countless hours of work being done by our architects and civil engineers.

General Contractors: We've been working with multiple general contractors for updated project costs, which we hope to finalize and share in a future update.

Obtaining these firm estimates will guide our continued fundraising efforts and put us in a position to continue our conversation with several banks about construction loans and financing.

This will also open the door to the next step in design and conversation with the city - developing and submitting our Construction Documents.

December 2024 Update

In the latter half of November, we received comments back from the City of Denver on our first "Site Development Plan" (SDP) submission. The type and quantity of comments were to be expected, and we're working with the architects, surveyors, and other related engineers to address them all, with a targeted second submission in mid-January.

We will have an updated site plan as of the next submission, which we will share here in our next update. With those updated plans in hand, we'll work with the general contractor and architect to refine the project's cost and schedule, which we hope to report on in our next update, too.

October 2024 Update

• Baruch Hashem, we have reached another major milestone! Our "Site Development Plan" (SDP) was submitted to the City of Denver right before Yom Tov, on Monday September 30th.

  
  

  The SDP process will involve several back and forth conversations and submissions to the city, which will span several months. The first submission is the hardest and biggest lift, which we are excited to have overcome.

  
  

  This keeps us on track to B'Ezras Hashem have building permits in hand by the end of next Summer.

  
  

  Feel free to review the submission file here. If viewed on a PC you can really see the tremendous level of detail that has gone into these documents, reflecting the many, many hours devoted to our project by our team of architects and civil engineers.

  
  

• We will be working with our General Contractor to price the work. This process will include sessions devoted to value engineering the project to ensure that we will be able to build our beautiful new Shul and campus while doing so as efficiently as possible and getting the most value for the funds we raise.