Olam Tikvah Building Renovation

Building Progress

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Watch our progress as we remodel and build to provide:

more parking

a larger social hall

a larger lobby

learning spaces

a library and a youth lounge

more restrooms

What’s New with the Construction?

January 1, 2008 Update

In December 2007, the parking lot was dug up once again, for the relocation of the gas line. This will not be the last time it is dug up, because the water line also needs to be installed.

According to the schedule, the first thing to happen will be the demolition of the little house, in order to create a staging area. A road for construction will be built: to do so, the playground will be temporarily removed and reinstalled once the building is finished. Our contractor, Scott Long, is also looking at the possibility of constructing the lower parking lot at the beginning of the project, so we gain 75 more parking spaces. This has been a very long process, and we all thought the building would be finished by now. Nevertheless, we are moving ahead, and if everything goes as planned, the bulldozers should be here in March.

November 15, 2007 Update

When will construction begin? Good question. Hopefully by the time you read this you will have already seen the big construction equipment on our property. If not, we are really close to that happening. In the meantime, the telephone cables have been relocated and the electric and gas lines are in the process of being moved.

October 2007 Update

If you were at Olam Tikvah for the holidays last month, you saw that the parking lot was torn up. In order for the telephone company to supply us with new telephone lines, they had to lay a conduit so they could snake the cable through the parking lot to the building. Also the electric company used a mole to make the connection to the transformer now in the front. The relocation of the electric and telephone lines were in preparation for the building expansion to begin in November.


August 29, 2007, photos by Rachelle Palley

The first thing to happen will be the creation of a construction staging area, where the playground is currently located. The playground equipment will be removed and stored for the duration of the project; it will be returned to the same location once the building is complete. After the land has been marked and surveyed, heavy equipment will roll in for tree removal and to prepare the land for the actual building. The builder will fence in the staging area and construction site. As the building progresses, I know everyone will want to know what is happening. But because it will become a hard-hat area and we do not want anyone getting hurt, we ask you not to trespass into the area. We also ask that you monitor your children during construction, especially on the weekends, when there will be no supervisors around.

On an exciting note, the builder has assured us that once the building has its roof, we can arrange hard-hat tours. The change has been a long time in coming, and I know we are all looking forward to the new social hall, youth and school wing and library. If you have any questions concerning the construction, please feel free to contact Rachelle Palley.

Groundbreaking Ceremony - March 25, 2007

Photos by Susan Coren, Greg Fabian and Mark Weber. Click on an image to enlarge it.