• Sold! A school building changes hands at the completion of a land contract. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER A 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. ❑ 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- THE BEST KEPT SECRET IN MICHIGAN . Experience the luxury of owning a Kohler 3.5 gal. toilet These superior flushing toilets are available in select areas only, in this case, two short blocks from the tunnel exit in down- town Windsor. The best part for you, the discriminating shop- per, is that your U.S. dollar is worth much more in Windsor. We have 1 and 2 piece toilets in a variety of colors in stock for you to take home today. THE BOLD LOOK OF KOHLER® C/) LU NOW, AREN'T YOU GLAD WE SHARED THE SECRET? • U-I H VETERAN PLUMBING & SUPPLIES F- 0 CC F- LU LU 1 0 Showroom Hours: Monday-Friday 1 1-5 • Saturday. 1 1-3 • or by appointment 3160 Haggerty Rd. • West Bloomfield • 48323 • 810-624-7300 276 WYANDOTTE ST. E., WINDSOR, ONTARIO PHONE: 519-256-4947 FAX: 519-256-1665 ul Rachel Bellack, Sid Awerbuck < >_ z H CL GOYEAU ST. TUNNEL e-mail: vets@mnsi.net I VETERAN PLUMBING McDOUGAL ST.