April 2025 Update

Site Development Plan (SDP) Round 2: Our Architects are hard at work addressing the second round of comments from the city. While these changes are being made, we are reviewing the project to do some basic value engineering - thereby ensuring that before our next step, we are poised to get the best and most beautiful campus built in the most financially efficient way possible!

Which leads us to....

Construction Documents: Once we have tweaked our plans for value engineering, our architects will be ready to start construction documents! (SDP focuses on everything outside the footprint of the building, while construction documents are the fine details inside the building.)

General Contractor: Based on the advice of our architects, we will wait until construction documents are 60-70% complete to bid out the project to general contractors to fine-tune our projected budget. At that point in time they will have a better picture of costs and the bids will be more accurate.

February 2025 Update

Address: DRUM ROLL PLEASE...... The city has designated an official address for our Shul property: 6523 E. Alaska Drive.

This means that we have progressed to the point that the city has combined the 3 lots that comprise our Shul property, combining our beautiful future campus into one address!

Site Development Plan: At the beginning of February we completed the task of addressing comments from the city and submitted the second round for our Site Development Plan.

We hope to hear back in the next two months on any further tweaks they may need.

You can see the updated plans at this link. Although much of it is beyond the understanding of us mere laypeople, it's amazing to see how much detail goes into these plans, underscoring the countless hours of work being done by our architects and civil engineers.

General Contractors: We've been working with multiple general contractors for updated project costs, which we hope to finalize and share in a future update.

Obtaining these firm estimates will guide our continued fundraising efforts and put us in a position to continue our conversation with several banks about construction loans and financing.

This will also open the door to the next step in design and conversation with the city - developing and submitting our Construction Documents.

December 2024 Update

In the latter half of November, we received comments back from the City of Denver on our first "Site Development Plan" (SDP) submission. The type and quantity of comments were to be expected, and we're working with the architects, surveyors, and other related engineers to address them all, with a targeted second submission in mid-January.

We will have an updated site plan as of the next submission, which we will share here in our next update. With those updated plans in hand, we'll work with the general contractor and architect to refine the project's cost and schedule, which we hope to report on in our next update, too.