June 2025 Update

Baruch Hashem, we continue to make progress with our building plans and would like to offer the following updates!

Value Engineering - almost complete! Working closely with our team of architects and civil engineers, we are on the cusp of completing a full review and revision of our plans, ensuring that they include every feature, space, and finish necessary to create a functional, vibrant and dynamic campus, while ensuring efficiency and viability of the project. Once this stage is 100% complete (we anticipate another 1.5-2 weeks), we are poised to begin working on creating our Construction Documents.

Construction Documents & General Contractor: We anticipate that our Construction Documents will be 75% complete by the end of July. At that point we will be reaching out to General Contractors for bids on the project. While we have already been in contact with one (promising) option, our architects have advised that we wait to engage in the formal process of bidding out the project until after the Construction Documents are significantly developed. This will create greater interest among potential matches and will enable us to get firmer bids.

April 2025 Update

Site Development Plan (SDP) Round 2: Our Architects are hard at work addressing the second round of comments from the city. While these changes are being made, we are reviewing the project to do some basic value engineering - thereby ensuring that before our next step, we are poised to get the best and most beautiful campus built in the most financially efficient way possible!

Which leads us to....

Construction Documents: Once we have tweaked our plans for value engineering, our architects will be ready to start construction documents! (SDP focuses on everything outside the footprint of the building, while construction documents are the fine details inside the building.)

General Contractor: Based on the advice of our architects, we will wait until construction documents are 60-70% complete to bid out the project to general contractors to fine-tune our projected budget. At that point in time they will have a better picture of costs and the bids will be more accurate.

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.