TEE Updates

After meeting with our construction team yesterday, we have news to share!

Concrete was poured yesterday.  You can see some of it in a photo below.  Next week, more work will be completed on the footing and foundation.  By the end of next week, we anticipate all footing areas will be prepped.  Next, you will see work on the elevator hoistway and stair tower.  After, work will begin on underground utilities inside the building footprint.  Phases of pouring of the concrete slab will begin after that.  You can anticipate seeing the erection of steel in mid-September.  

Please contact us with any questions, and again, feel free to visit the temple office and tour the construction site with us from a window above!

Take a look at these photos showing the progress made this week on our construction site! Below, you will see our new transformer, which is ready to be hooked up to the building next week. Don't forget that the temple will be closed on June 26th while this power switch is being made. In the other photos, you will also see the land being prepared for the foundation. These are significant steps forward. We hope you come to visit and check it out for yourself. It looks much more exciting in person!

Our property is a very active site, with the space cleared and prepared for construction.  You will notice that trees have been removed, concrete broken up, and trenches dug for new gas lines, electricity, and plumbing.  Things are moving along. Gas service is about to be temporarily changed until our first phase is complete, and our contractor, Old Forge, is focused on the transformer changeover and laying the foundation down.

We currently have a team meeting scheduled for the first Thursday of every month. Our building committee, composed of Mike Leber, Dana Shectman, Casey Horgan, Dom DeFilippo, and Marc Linder, will attend these meetings, along with representatives from the JCC and the Y, our project coordinator, and Old Forge. These meetings serve as a platform to review the upcoming four weeks' schedule and to plan ahead beyond those weeks. This is crucial to ensuring the smooth progress of our project.  

We also encourage you to stop by and see the site from the ground and from the window in the upstairs hallway that overlooks the whole area.  

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our beautiful groundbreaking ceremony! If you were unable to be there, we hope you looked at the photos and read the speeches. We know that you are waiting to see progress on the site. We wish it were simple to show you a visual of all of the progress we have been making! Permits are being finalized. The building committee is working diligently on the interior. We are working with Old Forge Construction on the final site details that need to be put in place before mobilizing the entire team. We recognize that this work looks invisible to you, but each piece brings us closer to seeing our collective vision rise from the ground. Please feel free to reach out to the building committee or office with any questions you have.

L'shalom,

The TEE Building Committee

Dear Temple Emanu-El Family,

We have an exciting update!

We have chosen a contractor and are entering the process of finalizing the contract, which will be done within the next couple weeks. Our construction will commence after the start of the new year. We are thrilled to finally be able to share this with you. We know that you are as happy as we are to get to see the hard work we have been putting in finally come to fruition.

Looking forward,

The Temple Emanu-El Building Committee

A lot of progress has been made on our project since our last update! As we shared in June, ten contractors were invited to bid. We received bids from six firms. We then worked with our consultant and the JCC to narrow it down to three. We interviewed each of them individually and were able to turn our focus to two exceptional options. The consultant, the contractors, the JCC, and our TEE team worked together to create a list of modifications to the plan in order to guarantee the most cost effective solutions possible, while ensuring our requirements and needs are met. The final two groups are now modifying their bids and will be presenting them to us shortly. We understand that it is challenging to wait as this important process is completed. We share your frustrations, but also would like to share our growing excitement with you. Although visually you are not seeing much progress at all, we promise that there is a tremendous amount of work consistently happening behind the scenes that is bringing us to that greatly anticipated shovel in the ground!