A day that decades of alumni and past parents have dreamed about for
years has arrived as Strake Jesuit has announced the reacquisition of
the property Cambridge Court Apartments at 6500 South Gessner, which is immediately adjacent to the
school’s Gessner driveway. The 7.55 acres of land was part of Jesuit’s
original property when the school opened in 1961 but was lost in the
school’s bankruptcy in 1971. “This purchase is an historic moment for the school,” said school
president Fr. Daniel Lahart, SJ, “and we have acted on this
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with the confidence that alumni and
friends will provide us with the financial resources for this purchase
and for the conversion of the property back to school use. In my tenure
at Strake Jesuit alumni constantly inquire about the school buying back
the property we lost in 1971.” While the property is just a portion of the land lost in 1971, it is by
far the land most useful to the school at this time. "Ever since Fr.
Michael Alchediak, SJ, who was then the school's president, mobilized
parents and friends to help repurchase the current campus after the
bankruptcy," noted Fr. Lahart, "it has always been our dream to
reacquire property. This purchase, which certainly has sentimental
value to generations of alumni, will also have an immediate impact on
the quality of student life as soon as it is converted to school use."
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