About the Project:

This building project is located in the heart of Bayit VaGan, a west Jerusalem neighborhood. The neighborhood borders on Beit Hakerem, Ramat Sharet, Givat Mordechai and Kiryat Yovel. It was founded during the British Mandate in 1926 by the Mizrachi and Bnei Brit movements as a garden-filled neighborhood for religious and non-religious. Topographically it is on a relatively elevated part of the city. The municipal statistics in 2017 registered 19,440 people living in the neighborhood. Over the past few years large groups of upper class immigrants from France and South America have settled there together. Uziel street, the longest in the neighborhood, is largely religious, particularly Charedim, many of them from France.

The project involves renovating and enlarging a 4 story building that presently houses 7 tenants, adding 2.5 new stories and an apartment on ground level.

The existing apartments will be getting 2 new rooms, one of which can serve as a bomb shelter, a 12 sqm. porch, and a storeroom.

The whole building will be strengthened constructionally, upgraded with a new elevator, new main plumbing and electricity, face-lift of the lobby and stairwell, new external facing, and a landscaped garden.

Project Staff:

Architect  - Yitzchak Panet

Tenants' Lawyer - Rachel Berlin

Project Status:

Initial municipal approval