At the signing: Stephen R. Wendell, President & CEO, UJA/Federation of Eastern Fairfield County, (front left), and Andrew H. Banoff, President & CEO, Jewish Senior Services (front right), sign closing documents. Standing, from left: Mark Kirsch, Esq.; Karen Ferleger, Chairperson, UJA/Federation of Eastern Fairfield County; Roger Sliby, Chief Finance Officer, Jewish Senior Services; and Regina Flaherty, Esq.

BRIDGEPORT – On Feb. 24, Jewish Senior Services (The Jewish Home) in Fairfield (JSS) completed the purchase of the property at 4200 Park Ave. in Bridgeport. The site has been home to the Jewish Center for Community Services (JCCS) – the JCC and UJA/Federation of Eastern Fairfield County – for five decades.

In partnership with JCCS, JSS will develop The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Campus at Park Avenue, thanks to a lead gift from the JSS’s JHE Foundation. The construction of the new campus is expected to take two years and be completed by spring 2016.

The JCCS ended regular operations last summer, closing its main building in June and its summer camps in August. UJA/Federation administrative operations were moved to the Westport offices of UJA/Federation Westport Weston Wilton Norwalk, where the two organizations share space and support staff.

Merkaz, JCCS’s community high school for Judaic studies, relocated to Congregation Rodeph Sholom in Bridgeport, and the JCCS summer camps and annual high school basketball tournament will be hosted by the JCC of Greater New Haven in Woodbridge.

The new building is designed to house not only JSS’s full range of programs and services and the JCCS/Federation, but several areas created especially for community-wide use.

In the coming weeks, the Ledger will feature an in-depth look at the new project.

For more information: jseniors.org.