Highland Lakes To Build Center

Chabad Chayil center of Highland Lakes, FL will soon break ground on a new 30,000 square foot state-of-the-art educational center. Full Story

February 5, 2016 – 26 Shevat 5776

Chabad Chayil center of Highland Lakes, FL will soon break ground on a new 30,000 square foot state-of-the-art educational center. Full Story

Miami Herald

A Chabad educational center will soon rise in the Highland Lakes neighborhood in unincorporated Northeast Miami-Dade.

On Jan. 20, the Miami-Dade Northeast Community Council (Area 2) unanimously approved the project, which has been almost four years in the works. It will be located on 2601 NE 211th Ter.

Chabad Chayil currently operates in four houses and nine classrooms at Aventura Waterways K-8 Center, which is directly across the street. The houses will be torn down and the new Chabad will be built there.

It’s expected to break ground in the next five to seven months.

“This is going to allow us to expand our current programs,” Rabbi Moishe Kievman said, noting that the new center will allow them to host kids at their own location and will have the capacity for a new pre-K, something the Chabad hasn’t offered before.

The new building will still host Chabad Chayil’s current after-school care programs, along with their long-established children and teen programs. It is also slated to include 16 classrooms, one adult and one children’s library, an indoor playground, a social hall and a rooftop park. The $8 million project will be funded through anchor donors.

Kievman says he is certain “the new building will transform the community into a hub of Judaic culture and education.”

“With over 30,000 square feet of indoor space and an 8,000-square-foot rooftop park, the building will allow us to expand our current programming and services to include a preschool and a whole line-up of extracurricular activities,” Kievman said, along with his wife Layah, who will be running the Chabad with him.