Jewish Family Services of Vancouver has purchased a building at 2929 Commercial Dr. <\/i>(photo from JFS)<\/i><\/p>\n
Jewish Family Services (JFS) of Vancouver has purchased a commercial building at 2929 Commercial Dr. to serve as its headquarters and services hub.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter renovations are completed, the 20,000-square-foot building will offer the necessary space and infrastructure for our social service offerings,\u201d said Tanja Demajo, JFS\u2019s chief executive officer. \u201cMoreover, with ownership, we will finally have a sense of stability after 87 years of frequent moves from one leased premise to another.\u201d<\/p>\n
The building, to be named in honour of the Roadburg family, will replace two Vancouver locations that are currently being leased: JFS\u2019s head office at 2285 Clark Dr. and the JFS Kitchen at 54 East 3rd Ave. The new location, just three blocks from the Commercial-Broadway Skytrain station, provides ready access to public transit, which is essential for most JFS clients.<\/p>\n
The purchase and a portion of the planned renovations have been financed by generous donations from Harvey and Jody Dales; the Ben and Esther Dayson Charitable Foundation; the Diamond Foundation; the Al Roadburg Foundation; and the Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased to support the development of the new facility for Jewish Family Services of Vancouver to carry the Roadburg family name,\u201d said Stephen Gaerber, a director of the Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation and past board chair of JFS. \u201cThis provides a long-term solution for JFS, locating JFS\u2019s critical services and administration in a central location near transit and helping ensure more people can get access.\u201d<\/p>\n
Services to be offered from the new location will include case management, housing advocacy, clinical counseling, meals from a commercial kosher-certified pareve kitchen, care for Holocaust survivors and a Ukrainian settlement program.<\/p>\n
The renovation plans call for, among other things, a multipurpose room that can act as a dining area for meals, event space for programming, and drop-in space for the community. The building will also have a play area for young children, meeting rooms, wheelchair-accessible washrooms, a Jewish Foodbank warehouse, and a truck loading dock.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Courtesy Jewish Family Services<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jewish Family Services of Vancouver has purchased a building at 2929 Commercial Dr. (photo from JFS) Jewish Family Services (JFS) of Vancouver has purchased a commercial building at 2929 Commercial Dr. to serve as its headquarters and services hub. \u201cAfter renovations are completed, the 20,000-square-foot building will offer the necessary space and infrastructure for our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7702,7703,3613,6679],"class_list":["post-43016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-jewish-family-services","tag-jfs","tag-real-estate","tag-social-services"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}