TEE Updates

Join us for an exclusive tour of our new Temple Emanu-El space! Click the image below to take a virtual tour of our sanctuary, social hall, offices, kitchen, and more, hosted by Past-President and Building Committee Chair, Michael Leber. This is a special opportunity to explore our new home, and you won’t want to miss it!

 Turn up the volume and enjoy a sneak peek at what’s coming for our expanding Community Campus. Exciting updates are on the way, and this moment marks a monumental time for all of us.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to grow and evolve together!

Steel was delivered last Thursday, and the workers immediately began erecting the structure. All the hard work to ensure the footings and leveling plates were in the exact right spots is paying off. Look at all the progress that has been made since Thursday!

We had an opportunity to meet with the entire team for our progress meeting just before Yom Kippur. Construction continues to move right along! By this time, you have likely seen the elevator shaft and stairwell rise from the ground at the front of the property. If you look now, you will see a covering of rocks. The ground is being prepared for the concrete slab. The electric underground roughs are being completed. After the inspection of that work, the first-floor slab will be poured except for the sanctuary space. That is being held for later so machinery can continue to access the site easily. The following steps you will see will be the delivery and erection of the steel.

Please contact us with any questions or comments, and, as always, visit us to see the progress for yourself!

Looking forward,

The Temple Emanu-El Building Committee

This morning, the Temple Emanu-El building committee met with the JCC committee, the contractors, and our construction manager for our monthly progress meeting. We are pleased to report that the project is moving right along! The new door outside the gymnasium has been installed, so we continue to have a safe evacuation route despite the construction. Currently being worked on, among other things, is finalizing the water metering design, finishing backfilling the concrete work that is already done, starting masonry work for the elevator shaft, and completing underground utility work. The site is busy! You can take a peak through the construction fence or get a bird's-eye view from the window at the end of the upstairs hallway. Please feel free to reach out to the office with any questions.

We hope that you have come to see our construction site. There is so much going on! If you look at the overall space, you can visualize the perimeter of our new home. You can see it in the photos below, but because it is such a large space, we assure you it is better to look at it in person!

At today's meeting with our construction crew, we were reminded that pouring concrete is one of the most exciting tasks to accomplish when building a new building. Also very exciting and critical is the setting up of leveling plates because the steel that will keep our building stable sits on them. There is no room for error while going through that part of the building process, which is why it takes so long and delays the visual process.

Please remember that we are available to answer questions. Always feel free to reach out to us by replying to this email, calling the office, chatting us up at services, or any other way you feel comfortable.

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The old transformer has been removed from the property, and the new one is up and running. This allows us to progress on the foundation work.  Keep an eye on the site so you can all of these exciting changes for yourself!

Our construction site sure is busy! Here is some of the big news.

This week, utilities have been addressed. Cable lines have been moved, gas lines are being placed in a temporary location, and work is being done to prepare for our new transformer. Next, you will see excavation for the footings, which will prepare us to begin the foundation. We can't wait to see steel being placed as our project goes vertical later this summer!

There may be coordinated shut downs of the property at various times throughout this process, and we will let you know if/when this will affect Temple Emanu-El operations with as much advanced notice as possible.

We encourage you to stop by and see the work for yourself! Please contact us with any questions you may have.

Looking forward!

We have very exciting news!  

You will finally begin to see changes to our building site. Beginning on or about Wednesday, April 10th, work will begin to clear the area of trees, sidewalks, curbs, and other debris. Trenches will be dug for pipes and electrical lines. As you enter from Oak Tree Road, the parking lot on the left side will be closed off to everyone except authorized personnel, as it will be an active construction zone.  

As construction progresses, normal routines will change and be disrupted. We will do our absolute best to keep you updated as we learn of developments.  

Watch for updates, photos, and videos as our new home grows from the ground! The more you visit us in the office and attend services and programs, the more you will see the advancement of our incredible project.

Please make sure to open the emails so you always have the most up-to-date information. You can also find these updates right here on our website.

On Tuesday, January 30, 2024, members of Temple Emanu-El and the JCC, donors, staff, and dignitaries gathered to break ground on Temple Emanu-El's new spiritual home and the JCC of Middlesex County expansion.  This event was long awaited and full of excitement and hope for all that is to come in our very bright future!

Dear Temple Emanu-El Community,

We would like to update you on the latest information regarding our new construction. We are currently winding down the next step of the bidding process. As that step reaches its completion, we are simultaneously working to deal with site preparation. We understand how difficult it is to wait to get to see evidence of all that has been going on behind the scenes. We share your frustration. However, our committee takes our fiduciary responsibility to the congregation very seriously, and we want to guarantee the financial viability of each aspect of the project. We are diligently moving toward our end goal, and look forward to our next exciting steps. Our Congregational Meeting is taking place on Wednesday, December 20th at 8:00pm. There will be an update given that evening, and we hope you join us to hear it.

Thank you,

The Temple Emanu-El Building Committee: Michael Leber, Dana Shectman, Casey Horgan, & Dominic DiFilippo

Very exciting news!   As of last week, our project is in the bidding stage.  The request for bid package was sent out to ten contractors and nine have responded that they will be bidding on our new construction.  Bids must be in by July 14th and we will keep you posted once our committee and the board have reviewed them.

Be on the lookout for our new signs that are finally in and will be installed on the Temple property in the upcoming days.