The JCC announced a lead gift of $5 million from the Cleveland, Ohio-based Mandel Foundation.

from Palm Beach Daily News:

Mandel brothers give $5M to build Jewish Community Center in Palm Beach Gardens

A gift from a foundation with Palm Beach ties has brought the Jewish Community Center of the Palm Beaches much closer to its fundraising goal for a new center in Palm Beach Gardens.

… The permanent JCC North facility, to be constructed on 14 acres off Hood Road in Palm Beach Gardens, will contain a preschool, an aquatics center, summer day camp, sports fields and a gymnasium. It will also have space for lectures, group fitness, adult education and children’s programming, including special-needs programs.