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Detroit Public Schools buildings will rise where
Sinai Hospital used to stand.

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y the end of the month, the
former Sinai Hospital
building on West
McNichols Road in Detroit
will be reduced to rubble, clearing the
way for a new educational complex for
the Detroit Public Schools.
The $110 million
Sinai Educational
Campus will serve a
total of about 2,500
students in three
schools, said Stan
Childress, commu-
nity communica-
tions director for the
district. The campus
will house a new
Renaissance High
School building, a
special education
center and a career
and technical center.
Plans for the
campus also in-
clude a regional
sports center that
will provide facili-
Main entrance of Sinai
ties for varsity foot-
ball, track and field
and swimming.
public continues to receive from Sinai-
Lead architect for the new campus,
Grace, Huron Valley-Sinai and the
part of the Detroit Public Schools'
new Oakland Virtual Medical Center,"
$1.5 billion capital improvement pro-
Page said.
gram, is the Detroit-ba s ed Gunn
"The Jewish community is pleased
Levine Associates.
that, given the Sinai building had
Sinai Hospital, founded in 1953 as a become unsuitable and unnecessary,
haven for Jewish doctors facing dis-
the property will be used for such a
crimination elsewhere, was sold to the
wonderful community resource." ❑
Detroit Medical Center in 1997 for
$65 million. DMC shuttered the
building in 1999, combining its serv-
ices with the nearby Grace Hospital
on West Outer Drive, which DMC
Linda Zalla will address the
also owns. The facility is now called
Temple Beth El Sisterhood at 6:30
Sinai-Grace Hospital.
p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25 ("Beth
Proceeds of the Sinai Hospital sale
El Sisterhood Hosts Local Artist,"
were used to begin the Jewish Fund,
4
Aug. 30, page 64).
4
which provides grants for health and
Joel Ring, shown in the Aug. 23
human services projects in metropoli-
cover photograph for the cover
tan Detroit. Since 1997, the fund has
package "The Jewish Focus On
awarded $18.3 million in grants.
Education," lives in Flint. He
Destroying the building that former-
previously resided in Vail, Colo.,
ly housed Sinai Hospital does not
and Atlanta, Ga.
destroy the hospital's legacy, said
David Page of Bloomfield Hills, vice

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chair of the Jewish Fund. The Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit is
the fund administrator.
"The real monument to Sinai
Hospital is not the building itself, but
the legacy of the service embodied in
two things: the good works of the
Jewish Fund, which was formed with
the proceeds of the sale of the hospi-
tal, and, of course, the health care the

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