Category: Building Updates

We trust all is well with you and your families. We are very excited to share the news of achieving a new stage in the dream of acquiring YDLV’s new home! Boruch Hashem, to date, Dr. Baktari and his team have successfully found the property, negotiated the sale of the three parcel assemblage, received the special use permit, and designed the plans which are now fully permitted. We are happy to announce that the Omni Group Development team is currently prepping for the demolition and remodel phase of the project! They have lined up early procurement of long-lead items and plan the initial demolition to begin on the unoccupied space on August 1, 2023. Verizon has confirmed they plan to complete their decommission and departure by the end of August. The Omni Group weekly meetings continue to ensure that all players are on task and keeping to the timeline. We again express our deepest gratitude to Dr. Jonathan Baktari, his Vice President, Mrs. Ashlee Arnold, and his dedicated team at Omni Group Development, whose skill and expertise has manifested in executing each stage,  despite numerous challenges and hurdles!

The upcoming Savor ’23 event will serve as a celebration of these tremendous accomplishments and as a springboard to energize the continued fundraising effort of the Capital Campaign. Thank you to all YDLV parents and donors for your support during this time. Please stay tuned for more exciting updates, bezras Hashem!

All the best,

Rabbi Mendy Levine
Rabbi Dovid Mandel
Yeshiva Day School of Las Vegas

We trust all is well with you and your families.

We are very excited to share an important milestone in the journey to our new YDLV home. After submitting the remodel plans, there was some back and forth with the county, including multiple revisions. Boruch Hashem, today, we were informed by Dr. Baktari and his team that the building department of Clark County has finally approved our plans! This means we are clear to hire a General Contractor and begin planning for actual demolition and construction! The clear Hashgocho Protis of Hashem’s guiding Hand has enabled this tremendous achievement and “Ain Anachnu Maspikim Lehodos…” Bezras Hashem, the process should continue smoothly until we can open the doors to greet more smiling children daily!

 

We want to take this opportunity to thank all the people without whom this tremendous achievement could not have happened.

 

We are grateful to the Board of Directors of Yeshiva Day School for providing the vision and sharing the responsibility for this giant leap into the acquisition and construction process. Thank you to Anthony Bock, Rabbi Daniel Rubenstein, and Leigh Silver.

 

We are eternally thankful to Dr. Jonathan Baktari, his VP, Mrs. Ashlee Arnold, and the entire team at Omni Development Corp, who have led the whole project from its inception through this stage. They began searching for a suitable property, continued managing the three simultaneous sales (negotiations, contracts, and extensions), fought for the special use permit, guided the architectural design and development, and ensured the permitting process continued until completion. These and other numerous details and challenges were executed and handled with skill, patience, care, and focus on ensuring the process would continue step by step.

 

The Ethos 3 Architect Team of John Lopeman, Christian Sapit, and the rest, have consistently moved the ball forward weekly for the last year and a half. Their professionalism and skill have produced a beautifully designed set of plans, which are now fully permitted to build!

 

Bob Gronauer and Elizabeth Olsen, legal counsel at Kaempfer Crowell have been enormously helpful in navigating the various county departments and shepherding through the legal and permitting process.

 

Thank you to all YDLV parents and donors for your support during this time. Bezras Hashem we anticipate sharing more great news in the near future.

All the best,

Rabbi Mendy Levine

Rabbi Dovid Mandel

Yeshiva Day School of Las Vegas

I would like to share with you an update on our progress. For the last few months our design team has met weekly to develop a full set of design plans for the 1st phase of our campus, to remodel the existing building. Baruch Hashem our incredible team has met our deadline and completed the full design plan set this past Friday! They have uploaded the full set (over 1000 pages!) to the Clark County website where it will be reviewed and issued a building permit. As well, the full set has been sent to four contractors to bid on the construction, which includes grading of the empty lots, installing turf and two playgrounds, and the full remodel of the 28,000 square foot building. The bids are due back in three weeks, when we will choose the lowest most qualified bid. We anticipate the permits coming back around that time as well. My team continues to meet weekly to finalize interior design details which will be incorporated in the contractor’s final plans.   We are still on track to have the project ready for occupation in either August 2023 or January 2024, depending on whether Verizon elects early termination or not. Either way, we anticipate beginning the onsite improvements by April 2023.   I would like to a give a special thank you to my Vice President, Ashlee Arnold, for her expertise and consistent commitment to ensuring the project continues to move forward, ensuring every detail is accounted for! Thank you as well to Rabbi Mandel for his constant participation and hard work, Rabbi & Mrs Levine for their input on the classroom and playground design, and to the new interior design committee. We look forward to watching the shovels hit the ground very soon!   If you have any questions about our future plans, in terms of construction and time frames, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. Jonathan Baktari MD Chairman of the YDLV Acquisition and Development Committee CEO of Omni Group Development BaktariMD@OmnigroupNV.com From the desk of the Chairman of the YDLV Acquisition and Development Committee Jonathan Baktari MD, CEO of www.usdrugtestcenters.com www.enationaltesting.com www.e7health.com jonathanbaktarimd.com

I have some amazing news.  With gratitude to Hashem, we have simultaneously completed the purchase on the three property assemblages today, including one building and the two adjacent parcels, for the future YDLV campus.  Funding for the $8 million project was successfully completed with a combination of cash and bank financing.  We negotiated a $4.9 million dollar bank loan, and the balance of the $3.1 million dollar cash portion was attained through generous donations.

Our community is now the proud owner of a 5-acre campus which will have a generational impact on Jewish education here in Las Vegas.  The current building, once renovated, can house up to 490 students.  In phase two, we can build two to three more buildings including an indoor gym/kitchen and cafeteria, that can house up to 1,000 students.

The next step is doing design work and obtaining permits for renovating a 28,000-square-foot building.  In addition, we will be applying for permits for an outdoor playground, for the pre-k school, as well as outdoor basketball courts, and other outdoor amenities.  We are going to modify the building for classrooms and amenities such as two (one on each floor) assembly/cafeteria spaces that can hold 100 students at a time and a beautiful Beis Medrash. There is space for tutoring and therapy rooms, an administrative area, and teacher work spaces. We also have to modify some of the site work, including modifying the driveways to comply with the zoning requirements.

I anticipate the project will be ready for occupation in either August 2023 or January 2024.  Currently, Verizon has a lease until August of 2023.  We are in negotiations with them for early termination.  If we can get them to move out early, I and my team can get the school ready for opening by August of 2023.  If Verizon decides to stay until August of 2023, then I am confident that the school will be ready for an official opening by January 2024.

We are currently doing all the building design work, as well as the offsite engineering work and we will be ready to submit for permits by January 2023.  My team and I will begin construction of the tenant improvement and onsite work by March or April 2023.

I would like to thank the Silver-Rothschild family and the Friedman family for their very gracious lead gifts which, together with other generous donors, enabled the down payment for the purchase. In addition, I would like to thank Rabbi Mandel who was assisting me and my team around the clock for the past year.

If you have any questions about our future plans, in terms of construction and time frames, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Jonathan Baktari MD

Chairman of the YDLV Acquisition and Development Committee

CEO of Omni Group Development

BaktariMD@OmniGroupNV.com

From the desk of the Chairman of the YDLV Acquisition and Development Committee Jonathan Baktari MD, CEO of www.usdrugtestcenters.com www.enationaltesting.com www.e7health.com jonathanbaktarimd.com

With Gratitude to Hashem, this past Wednesday, the Clark County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved our YDLV special use permit for our new location near Rainbow and 215.

Another piece of amazing news, we have gotten tentative bank approvals for our loan to complete the purchase of this 5-acre campus, $7.7 Million project.

I want to thank Rabbi Mandel, Rabbi Levine, as well as the YDLV board, as well as all of the amazing donors who have made this possible thus far. We are also indebted to an amazing team of top designers, a legal team, and brokers who worked tirelessly for almost 10 months to get this project this far.

BZH we are hoping to close escrow on this campus and building on or before December 15th. Stay tuned for more updates.

Thank you

Jonathan Baktari MD

Chairman of the YDLV Acquisition and Development Committee

CEO of Omni Group Development

From the desk of the Chairman of the YDLV Acquisition and Development Committee Jonathan Baktari MD, CEO of www.usdrugtestcenters.com www.enationaltesting.com www.e7health.com jonathanbaktarimd.com

I want to give everyone an update on YDLV’s new potential site. Our team has been working hard over the summer and we have made some significant progress. 1. We successfully negotiated extensions on the three properties until December 2022. 2. We were able to meet with Commissioner Naft in his office. The meeting included Rabbi Mandel and I and our zoning attorneys. Commission Naft had some very good input on our project and seemed very positive. We believe he will support the project as an excellent addition to the community. 3. Commissioner Naft’s office helped arrange a neighborhood community meeting in late August. The meeting went very well. Some neighbors expressed concerns mainly concerning traffic issues. We are going to work with the neighbors to address their concerns by taking their comments into design consideration, as well as strategically putting traffic signs around the neighborhood. 4. We have been meeting every Monday morning with our design team, architect, zoning attorney, and entitlement assistant to monitor and drive progress on our special use permit application. 5. We have begun the redesign plans for the existing building and are planning to submit these plans in the next month or so for formal permits, even before we close on the building and the other two properties. 6. We have submitted our full plans to the building department and department of public works. Last week we responded to their second round of comments and are now waiting for any more potential comments or approval. The next step would be presenting in front of the town board and the county commissioners. 7. The boundary and topographic survey has been completed. 8. We anticipate completing our traffic study this week and submitting it to the county for review and approval. Overall, my team is relatively confident that we will probably be able to close with our special use permit in December BezH. With Hashem’s help, the plan would be to get permits to start construction by February or March, and have construction completed by late July, hopefully, in time for the new school year. Thank you. Jonathan Baktari MD Chairman of the YDLV Acquisition and Development Committee CEO of Omni Group Development From the desk of the Chairman of the YDLV Acquisition and Development Committee Jonathan Baktari MD, CEO of www.usdrugtestcenters.com www.enationaltesting.com www.e7health.com jonathanbaktarimd.com