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Hebrew Academy of Cleveland gets permit to operate boys’ high school at Oakwood

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hacoakwood(Cleveland Jewish News)

The Cleveland Heights planning commission approved a conditional use permit for Hebrew Academy of Cleveland to operate a boys’  high school and administrative offices in the former Oakwood Club clubhouse Jan. 13.

The permit also allows Hebrew Academy to retain and reuse existing outbuildings on the property and to construct a new multi-purpose field and a new baseball field on the 90-acre site in Cleveland Heights, just west of Warrensville Center Road and south of Mayfield Road.

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New Hebrew Academy of Cleveland campus in Cleveland Heights would be all-boys school; Lyndhurst high school would close

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HACnewcamp(Cleveland.com)(Ed: Click here for a map of the site>>)

Hebrew Academy of Cleveland would transfer all of its pre-K through 12 boy students to a proposed new school campus on Warrensville Center Road.

The campus would occupy the site of the former Oakwood Club, which closed in 2010 after merging with Mayfield Sand Ridge Club in South Euclid and Chardon.

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Hebrew Academy to purchase CH portion of Oakwood Club

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hacoakwood(Heights Observer)(Ed: Not a new story, but some new details are revealed here.)

Hebrew Academy of Cleveland (HAC) will purchase the 92-acre Cleveland Heights portion of the former Oakwood Country Club from First Interstate Properties of Lyndhurst. In September 2014, HAC signed a letter of intent to purchase the property, and academy officials say they expect to finalize the acquisition within the next couple of weeks.

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Cleveland Heights city and CH-UH school officials look at tag-teaming on respective tax requests next year

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CHUHBOE(Cleveland.com)(Ed: article mentions briefly a few new facts relevant to the progress of the Millikin-Mosdos  and Oakwood-HAC deals)

City officials and the school board want to get on the same page — and possibly the same ballot — as they discuss the possibility of new tax initiatives next year.

The subject was broached again at an Oct. 28 joint meeting between City Council and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School Board.

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Hebrew Academy to buy Oakwood Country Club

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hacoakwood(Cleveland Jewish News)

The Hebrew Academy of Cleveland has signed a letter of intent to purchase the 92-acre Cleveland Heights portion of the former Oakwood Country Club from First Interstate Properties of Lyndhurst.

In a Sept. 8 email to Hebrew Academy faculty and parents, Rabbi Simcha Dessler, the educational director, said the academy has been granted an option to buy the property, just west of Warrensville Center Road. The academy’s executive board voted unanimously to proceed, and the decision was confirmed Sept. 7 by its board of directors.

 

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Oakwood Commons will bring change, but how remains unclear

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oakwood(Cleveland Jewish News)

It’s been more than two years since Lyndhurst-based First Interstate Properties announced its intent to turn the Oakwood Country Club, a former private Jewish country club that straddled South Euclid and Cleveland Heights, into Oakwood Commons, a mix of retail, residential and green space.

While progress has been made on the South Euclid side of things – including plans for a Walmart Supercenter on that city’s 62 acres – plans for 92 acres in Cleveland Heights remain largely on the drawing board.

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