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Following ‘difficult’ year, Federation calls for hope during annual meeting
JAA announces plans for urban senior village at former Charles Morris site
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Itzhak Perlman to perform with PSO on Sept. 21
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By David Rullo | Senior Staff Writer
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he Jewish Association on Aging announced plans to create a new urban senior village at its Browns Hill Road campus. Construction will begin soon on the first phase of the renovations that will transform the former Charles Morris Nursing and Rehabilitation Center into 30 personal care residences and add new executive offices, a renovated kitchen and cosmetic updates to the AHAVA Memory Care Residence, according to JAA Board Chair Lou Plung. Work is projected to be completed in late 2025. A second phase will create an independent living facility, consisting of approximately 60 units, on the site of the former Residence at Weinberg Village. Once the new urban senior village is finished, the campus — including The New Riverview — will boast 311 living units. Its accommodations and services will encompass independent living, personal care, memory care and wraparound services such as home health, hospice, Mollie’s Meals, physical therapy and care navigation. Residents, Plung said, will be able to move through the system as their needs and level of care change.
Once the construction is finished, he said, an evaluation process will begin to determine what, if any, additional amenities should be added. “What we hope to do is step back and say, ‘OK, what more can we put on the campus that will benefit the entire campus, that everyone is going to want to use and partake of? Is that some kind of JCC? Is it a medical building? Is it shopping?’” he said. The opportunities are plentiful, Plung said, and will present themselves once the main campus is completed. “Our focus right now is getting the infrastructure built, getting the residents on campus and then getting it to become a community,” he said. JAA is partnering with Continental Real Estate but will retain ownership of the property and buildings. Continental, based in Ohio, is a nationwide developer and builder of commercial real estate projects. It has a large portfolio in Pittsburgh, including developments at The Waterfront, the North Shore and the Galleria of Mt. Lebanon, as well as senior communities in three states, including Apple Blossom in Moon Township, Pennsylvania.
Jan Levinson speaking at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh annual meeting on Sept. 11 Photo by Adam Reinherz By Adam Reinherz | Senior Staff Writer
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he Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh marked a “difficult” 12-month stretch during its 2024 annual meeting. Speaking before nearly 150 community members at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh on Sept. 11, Federation volunteers and staff recounted a period marked by increased antisemitism, conclusion of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial and lingering effects of Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas. “Despite the immense damage, both mental and physical in Israel and in Jewish Pittsburgh, we continue to remain a resilient community,” Federation’s Chairman of the Board Jan Levinson said. “We stay true to our values and respond to strength, unity and unwavering resolve. That’s why resilience has become our hallmark, and what Jewish Pittsburgh is known for.” “It was a difficult year, emotionally with the horrifying attack of Oct. 7 and its
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