Chabad of Arizona is building a $5 million new wing on Lincoln Drive, with room for every generation

On Lincoln Drive, construction is under way. Chabad of Arizona is building a new wing at its Phoenix home, and with it the first stage of what it calls the Chabad Community Campus: one building where the preschool, the seniors, the young professionals, the Friendship Circle children and the Shabbos crowd all have room at the same time.

The reason is a happy one. The kehillah outgrew the building. Chabad says the growth has brought overflow crowds, expanding enrollments and limited space, and the new wing is its answer.

The current campaign is for $5 million. As of October, Chabad reports $940,000 in gifts and pledges, about 19 percent of the goal, with $4.06 million still to raise.

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Chabad's campaign sums it up in a phrase: five centers, one building. Key programs come together under one roof, with room to keep growing for decades.

According to Chabad's plans, the current phase will hold the Jewish Care Network, the Smile on Seniors senior center, Friendship Circle for children with special needs, JLI adult education, a teen and youth center, an Aleph Bet Preschool wing, space for JPhoenix young professionals and Camp Gan Israel, and a children's indoor play area.

It also brings an expanded sanctuary and a new simcha hall. For a shul that already seats more than 400 on Shabbos and Yom Tov, that may be the part families feel first.

The existing building stays at the center of it all: the sanctuary, the preschool classrooms, Mikvah Chaya Mushka, the playground, the sukkah patio, the Matthew Ritchie Library and the commercial kitchen.

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When Rabbi Zalman and Tzipi Levertov came to Phoenix in the 1970s, Chabad in Arizona was two people and one address. Kol Phoenix told that story last month: the Purim bags, the early years, the slow work of building a kehillah one family at a time.

Nearly fifty years later, Chabad of Arizona counts more than 25 locations across the state, with new centers this year in Carefree and Maricopa. Lincoln Drive is still the regional headquarters, and it is the building that now needs room to grow.

It is not the only building going up in the Valley. Yeshiva High School of Arizona is in the middle of its own $3.5 million expansion. Across the community, the question is the same good problem: more families, more children, not enough room.

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Chabad is building in stages. The plan is to finish the $5 million new wing first, then turn to the larger $9 million campus vision, which adds a second floor with adult education classrooms, a rabbi's study, offices for statewide outreach, a bar and bas mitzvah program, and more classrooms for children and teens.

Every part of the building can carry a family's name. Dedications range from $7,200 for one of 26 mezuzos to $2 million for the sanctuary, and Chabad says they can be paid in installments. The main entrance and the conference room are already reserved.

Chabad posts construction photos as the work moves forward. Information on the campaign is at chabadaz.com, or by calling the Chabad office at 602-944-2753.

How we reported this: drawn from Chabad of Arizona's building campaign pages, dedication list and construction photo gallery, Chabad's published descriptions of its Phoenix shul and centers, Jewish News of Greater Phoenix and Anash.org coverage of Chabad's 2026 expansion, and Kol Phoenix's own earlier reporting. Campaign figures are Chabad's own, as updated in October 2026, and were not independently verified. Chabad of Arizona was not interviewed for this piece; the construction timeline has not been published. This is not a fundraising appeal, and Kol Phoenix has no financial relationship with the campaign. The publisher is rabbi of Congregation Phoenix Torah in Phoenix. Corrections and additions are welcome at [email protected].