Now they have a whole
other reason to visit.

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Inside: The Year 5757 In Review — Locally, Internationally.
Neighborhood Shifts To Improvement Loans.

1975, 16 courts were put in with the
possibility of expanding. According
to Sorkin, it costs $5,000 per court
per year to maintain them. After the
renovations, four courts will remain.
The locker rooms for the Health
Club will be upgraded with new
lockers, carpet, lighting and plumb-
ing and new furniture for the lounge.
The general membership locker
rooms will be reduced in size and
upgraded in much the same way as
the Health Club.
The size of the gym will be dou-
bled, and will accommodate two full-
size basketball courts. According to
the national Jewish Community
Center Association, the Center's gym
is the smallest of any large center.
"Eight-five percent of JCC users
on a daily basis are here for the phys-
ical recreation," said Sorkin. "But the
future of the Center is not in that
area, and we may have given too
much consideration to it in the

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past."
The child development area will
receive the largest piece of the cam-
paign pie. Five classrooms will be

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added, the existing ones will be
expanded and bathrooms will be

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added throughout the area. The two
levels that hold child development
will be connected by a new staircase.
Computer and science labs will be
created, the toddler gym will move
to the preschool area and an outdoor
toddler playground will be con-
structed.
The cafeteria, now located at the
back of the building, will move to the
lobby and will be combined with a
cafe. There will be adjacent meeting
rooms for catered meetings.
The Judaic enrichment program
will move, along with the library, to
the executive office area. A multi-
media center will be created there by
adding a computer lab, learning cen-
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youth and adult library and a group
lecture/workshop space.
Administration will move to the
third level of the building, and
22,000 square feet — an increase of
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lecture hall in the Institute that
would provide space, in addition to
the conference room at the HMC,
for classes to meet with Holocaust
survivors following their tours.

Jewish Foundation.
"There are discussions under way,

Since the museum opened, more
than 1 million people have visited,
650,000 of them students with
school groups.
The HMC had expected to
receive the go-ahead to begin plan-
ning for its own project at the Feb.
24 meeting of the boards of the

The HMC is not a Federation
constituent agency. However, the
UJF owns the building and the land
on which the HMC would expand.
"The HMC has a plan and the
JCC has a plan," said Davidoff. "We
believe they don't conflict, but we
need to make sure that is the case."

Jewish Federation and the United

but approval wasn't given at the

meeting," said Federation's Chief
Operating Officer Mark Davidoff

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