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Jewish Community
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Betty Kahn Building

Jewish Community
Campus, Maple at
Drake roads,
West Bloomfield

Completion of Handleman
Hall expected September
1999. Phase II to begin
spring/summer 2000.

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Jewish Community
Center Jimmy Prentis Jewish Community
Campus, W. 10 Mile
Morris Building
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Silver Lodge Resort

Kitchen nearing completion.
Remainder of project to
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Jewish Community
Campus, Maple at
Drake roads,
West Bloomfield

Construction to begin fall
1999. Completion expected
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Cheboygan County

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to build the building, to make grants
that will make the building happen."
As with any developer, problems
arise that hold up construction. In the
midst of a building boom, Blumenstein
sees problems as challenges.
"It puts us to the test when so many
things are going on all at one time,"
she said. "One of the biggest difficulties
we have is that it's also a building boom
for everyone else, which makes it very
hard to get everything completed on
time. You want a trade (skilled workers)
to come to your project right now."
On the other hand, she said, when
economic times are stressful, the sup-
ply of workers increases, but it's more
difficult for the Federation to make a
commitment.
The Federation real estate commit-
tee and individual committees with
additional lay people in real estate,
oversee each project, Davidoff said.
"On a team basis, were doing what
we can do to keep our project costs in
check," he said. "We're also bound by
environmental factors, like zoning
ordinances and complicated financial
transactions, which we have to deal
with in the execution of the project."
Akiva was the most complicated of

Harry Kirsbaum can be reached at
(248) 354-6060, ext. 244, or by email
at hkirsbaum@thejewishnews.com .

the 10 projects, because the school
had to sell its Lathrup Village building
before committing to any new one, he
said. After it was sold to a developer,
"all of a sudden, Beth Achim came
from nowhere," when the congrega-
tion merged with Adat Shalom
Synagogue, allowing the Foundation
to buy Beth Achim, Davidoff said.
When construction plans for a new
ring road around the Jewish Community
Campus in West Bloomfield were
delayed because of the effect it might
have on wetlands, Davidoff found him-
self "trudging through the snow in
February" with the township wetlands
board to work things out.
All in all, the Federation construction
projects have touched the lives of all.
According to Marsha Goldsmith
Kamin, executive director of Jewish
Apartments and Services, the ring road
is a crucial link to the Federation's plan
to increase affordable housing for the
elderly; with the addition or the 100-
unit Norma Jean and Edward Meer
Jewish Apartments.
"Without the construction of the
ring road, we can't begin the construc-
tion, and without the Federation, we
wouldn't have the ring road," she said.
"They are financing, staffing, engineer-
ing, negotiating with the township —
they are doing everything."

