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A school building changes hands at the completion
of a land contract.

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER

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former Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah school building
in Beverly Hills recently
changed hands after the
completion of a land contract sale
begun in 1992.
The buyer of the building,
Kensington Academy, was
pleased to complete the $800,000
sale of the 55,000-square-foot
building.
"We are thrilled to have a home
of our own," said Debbie Trojan,
director of admissions/public re-
lations for the academy.
This summer, the academy, a
Catholic school educating chil-
dren from Montessori preschool
level through grade eight, was
ousted from its former school
building in Bloomfield Hills, a fa-
cility rented from the local school
district. The academy gutted its
new building, at one time the
Birmingham district's Valley
Woods Elementary School, and
moved in during September.
The Valley Woods school for-
merly housed the Sally Allen

plained of a lack of space. Hillel was expanding its girls school;
Day School recently completed a Darchei Torah was placing bids
major renovation and 28,000- on school buildings in the Birm-
square-foot expansion; Akiva He- ingham district and scrambling
brew Day School was scouring to find additional classrooms in
the Southfield and Oak Park shuts to supplement its rented lo-
school districts for an available cation in the Agency for Jewish
building to accommodate its bur- Education.
geoning population; The former Yeshiva Beth
However, the small
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Yehudah girls school. size and the out-of-the-

way location of the former Valley
Woods building was not suitable
for the Jewish day schools. In ad-
dition, at the time the land con-
tract began in 1992, Hillel had no
plans to expand, Akiva was com-
fortable within its Lathrup Vil-
lage building and Darchei Torah
had not used all the available
classroom space.

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Alexander Beth Jacob School for
Girls, which is now housed in the
former Congregation B'nai Moshe
Synagogue in Oak Park. School
officials moved to the former syn-
agogue to supply more room for
its growing student body and to
be closer to the students' homes.
The actual land contract
changed hands from the yeshiva
to the United Jewish Foundation,
which held the deed until the land

Too small and out of
the way.

contract was paid off, said Mark
Davidoff, chief operating officer
of the Jewish Federation of Met-
ropolitanDetroit. The UJF rent-
ed the school, until recently, to
the International Academy,
which moved to a former Lubav-
itch facility in Farmington Hills.
The completion of the sale
comes at a time when Jewish
schools in the area have com-

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