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Temple Emanu El reaches sale agreement with JCU
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BY: Douglas J. Guth Senior Staff Reporter
John Carroll University has agreed to purchase Temple Emanu El’s current University Heights facility for an undisclosed amount. The school has 45 days to assess the property before the sale becomes official.
If all goes as expected, John Carroll will use the site’s five-acre lot starting in August to provide temporary off-campus parking for students, says university president Rev. Robert L. Niehoff. To meet zoning requirements, the school will likely use the temple building for administrative or storage purposes.
University officials eventually want to demolish the facility and use the plot as a playing field/ green space. However, the property’s long-term future is contingent upon the university reaching goals drawn up in its 20-year master plan.
Part of the plan involves constructing parking garages and playing fields closer to campus on Warrensville Center Road and Fairmount Blvd. If the school was able to build closer to campus, it would sell the Temple Emanu El property for commercial development, notes Niehoff.
John Carroll officials signed the purchase agreement on Jan. 16.
Temple Emanu El, which has been neighbors with the university for 60 years, contacted John Carroll a year ago about buying its Green Road facility, says synagogue executive director Renee Higer. Negotiations regarding an initial deal fell through.
Last month, however, John Carroll came back to the synagogue with a proposal that included a “favorable (dollar amount) and other contingencies,” Higer adds.
Temple Emanu El also had been in talks with two other entities vying for the land.
Higer views the John Carroll agreement as “one step in the process” of moving temple operations to Orange Village. The Reform synagogue’s new 40,000 sq.-ft. facility is under construction on land it owns at the northeast corner of Brainard and Emery Roads.
The building, slated for opening in time for the 2008 High Holidays, will include two worship spaces along with space for a pre-school, religious education and social events. The $11-$12 million project (a price tag that includes land) is on schedule to be completed by August.
Temple Emanu El, home to about 500 families, decided to move its congregation in deference to the trend of Jewish families moving east of University Heights.
After a few “false starts” in attempts to sell the building, synagogue president Robert A. Stern is pleased to finally get a viable offer. (Plans to sell the Temple Emanu El property to a consortium of organizations led by Arcadian Financial Group, a real estate financing company based in New Jersey, fell through in Oct. 2006.)
“People were having some doubts” as to when the facility would be sold, Stern admits. “I’m delighted we finally got this done. Now we can focus on opening the new building and moving there this summer.”
dguth@cjn.org
John Carroll will use the site’s five-acre lot to provide off-campus parking.
If all goes as expected, John Carroll will use the site’s five-acre lot starting in August to provide temporary off-campus parking for students, says university president Rev. Robert L. Niehoff. To meet zoning requirements, the school will likely use the temple building for administrative or storage purposes.
University officials eventually want to demolish the facility and use the plot as a playing field/ green space. However, the property’s long-term future is contingent upon the university reaching goals drawn up in its 20-year master plan.
Part of the plan involves constructing parking garages and playing fields closer to campus on Warrensville Center Road and Fairmount Blvd. If the school was able to build closer to campus, it would sell the Temple Emanu El property for commercial development, notes Niehoff.
John Carroll officials signed the purchase agreement on Jan. 16.
Temple Emanu El, which has been neighbors with the university for 60 years, contacted John Carroll a year ago about buying its Green Road facility, says synagogue executive director Renee Higer. Negotiations regarding an initial deal fell through.
Last month, however, John Carroll came back to the synagogue with a proposal that included a “favorable (dollar amount) and other contingencies,” Higer adds.
Temple Emanu El also had been in talks with two other entities vying for the land.
Higer views the John Carroll agreement as “one step in the process” of moving temple operations to Orange Village. The Reform synagogue’s new 40,000 sq.-ft. facility is under construction on land it owns at the northeast corner of Brainard and Emery Roads.
The building, slated for opening in time for the 2008 High Holidays, will include two worship spaces along with space for a pre-school, religious education and social events. The $11-$12 million project (a price tag that includes land) is on schedule to be completed by August.
Temple Emanu El, home to about 500 families, decided to move its congregation in deference to the trend of Jewish families moving east of University Heights.
After a few “false starts” in attempts to sell the building, synagogue president Robert A. Stern is pleased to finally get a viable offer. (Plans to sell the Temple Emanu El property to a consortium of organizations led by Arcadian Financial Group, a real estate financing company based in New Jersey, fell through in Oct. 2006.)
“People were having some doubts” as to when the facility would be sold, Stern admits. “I’m delighted we finally got this done. Now we can focus on opening the new building and moving there this summer.”
dguth@cjn.org
John Carroll will use the site’s five-acre lot to provide off-campus parking.
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