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Friday, January 25, 1985
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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JVS Is Protesting Lease
Restrictions For Retarded
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A JVS client enters the sixth floor elevator at Kristen Towers.
Jewish Vocational Services will
ask the New York-based de-
velopment company that owns
Kristen Towers, site of the JVS
adult day program for the re-
tarded, to renegotiate a lease
agreemelit that forbids JVS
clients from using elevators off
the front lobby and requires them
to ride to and from their sixth floor
workshop in a specially-equipped
elevator at the rear of the build-
ing. Should SBREC Development
Associates refuse to alter the
lease, the JVS plans to file
charges of discrimination against
the company, a source close to
JVS said Wednesday.
The current JVS lease, which
went into effect Jan. 1, was ham-
mered out when the New York
firm bought the Oak Park build-
ing last fall. While the JVS Board
of Trustees voiced disapproval of a
number of new conditions, includ-
ing the elevator requirement, the
agency agreed to the lease to
avoid the possibility of eviction,
the source said. A new building,
specifically for the JVS workshop,
is currently in the planning
stages. Other terms in the lease
which the JVS protested were re-
quirements that JVS clients use
restrooms on their floor only and
that they do not loiter in public
areas of the building. The terms of
the lease were made public this
week in a Detroit Free Press col-
umn by Susan Watson. The Free
Press story was termed accurate
by JVS officials.
"Its a workable arrangement,
but it's not ideal," Leah Dickman,
director of the adult day program
at Kristen Towers said. "I think
the article speaks for itself," JVS
Director Al Ascher added, refer-
ring to Watson's implication that
SBREC Development Associates
is guilty of discrimination.
Christine Kurtz, who is in
charge of asset management for
SBREC, denied that the New
York firm was biased against the
mentally retarded or any other
group. "We are not trying to of-
fend anyone," She told The Jewish
News in a telephone interview.
she explained that the major rea-
son for the changes in the lease
was to alleviate congestion in the
building's main lobby.
"The sixth floor has twice as
many people as any other floor in
the building" on Greenfield at
Lincoln, Kurtz said. She added
that controlling the pedestrian
traffic was a necessary step so
that a $1 million renovation of
facilities planned for the next
12-18 months could begin. Kurtz
said however, that the conditions
set forth in the new lease were
designed as a permanent change.
JVS, one of the two tenants on
the sixth floor, serves about 180
clients at the Kristen Towers
workshop. The other tenant,
Michigan Paraprofessional
Training Institute, has an
enrollment of 250 students train-
ing for careers in various medical
fields.
As part of the lease agreement,
SBREC spent about $10,000 to
modify the elevator and entrance
at the rear of the building for use
by handicapped persons, accord-
ing to Kurtz. While most of the
JVS clients range from mildly to
profoundly retarded, many do not
require handicapped facilities to
live and work. Workshop clients
and employees had been using the
main lobby elevators and the
building's public restrooms for the
five years the agency has been lo-
cated at the site.
"Some of the rules, those that
were established for safety rea-
sons, are decent," the source close
to JVS said. "But not stuff like
(the regulations regarding) bat-
hrooms."
Kurtz, who called the Free Press
column "one sided and not accu-
rate in many aspects," said that
SBREC would be willing to dis-
cuss changing the lease with JVS
officials. But she reiterated the
fact that JVS agreed to the condi-
tions during negotiations last fall.