The center is on 10 Mile Road, near Greenfield Road.
Hand-wringing and angst endured for many months when it looked as if the Jewish Community Center on 10 Mile Road in Oak Park would shut at the end of September because of mounting losses -- about $1 million a year.
But on Monday came good news.
The news site OC115.com reports that the Jewish Federation announced that an anonymous donor has stepped forward to save the JCC, which serves a community that includes a large number of orthodox Jews and senior citizens. The donor will save part of the facility and knocked down the rest and rebuild.
The main JCC is on Maple and Drake roads in West Bloomfield.
On Monday night, at a gathering at the JCC in Oak Park, Larry Wolf, President of the Jewish Federation told the crowd, according to the website:
“As a result of the mayor brokering a deal, I am pleased today to tell you that we are very close to finalizing arrangements with a local benefactor who has agreed as follows:
“Assisting in hiring a general manager for the building, maintaining the pool and the pool area, accommodating its current operations being sensitive to the observant community living in the area, tearing down the remaining facility, and rebuilding a new facility here somewhere between 25 and 40,000 square feet, which will have a modest fitness area, hoping to house one or two Jewish agencies, program tenants such as Jewish community center, facilities for classrooms, an area like this for a communal gathering, and smaller individual office type rooms.
“The name of the building will be JPM And the many donor plaques that are in this building will remain here. Some have already indicated they would like to move their plaques to the Kahn building that’s their choice, not ours, and we will abide by the wishes of the donors as it relates to the plaques.”
