City Church to Become Condos?
posted by on April 17 at 12:51 PM
13th and Olive
The Medhane Alem Evangelical Ethiopian Church, just a few blocks away from Cal Anderson Park, has been sold.
The sign in front of the church advertises the space as a great location to build condos and townhomes, and that’s just what might be coming to the neighborhood.
It’s unclear who purchased the 19,000 square foot property, which is valued at about $1.25 million by the King County Assessor’s Office. The real estate agent handling the sale would not divulge who purchased the property, but he did say papers were just signed yesterday.
According to Ed Park—who ran a counseling service out of Medhane Alem before the the the church relocated to a new space near Rainier Beach—the congregation had outgrown the space and the property was put up for sale. “I know they preferred for a church to buy from them,” Park says. “But [condos were] kind of their fall back if there wasn’t a church that would step up.”
Replacing a church - finally a condo project the Slog can get behind, no matter how "unaffordable" the condos are.
@1 - How long have you been a member of the Evangelical Ethiopian Church?
I lived next to that church for 3 years. It's located in a quiet, residential portion of Capitol Hill. (They were great neighbors.) Condos would fit right in. The neighborhood is a mix of buildings and homes. With three churches on that block, parking was easy. I guess all good things come to an end, though and I think that's the right thing to put there.
I just hope they make it sort of brick-looking to match the building next door.
Mars Hill bought it.
Can't we figure out something better to do with these churches - like putting supercomputers in them.
Sounds great! Move god out, and I'll move right in!
dammit; I wanted to buy this and turn it into Slog World Headquarters...
I was hoping that somehow Velocity and some other arts groups would buy it. Ugh.
I live in a condo inside a hundred-year-old church. Churches-into-condos seems to be a trend these days...I wonder why that is.
I just wished The Stranger paid their employees enough to get cameras that don't suck ass.
1,250,000 / 19,000 = $66 a square feet.
By golly, we should turn it into some condos and sell 'em at $550 a square foot!
That's about my payment.
Just what Rainier Beach needs, another church. All the commercial space there is slowly becoming some sort of fly-by-night money taker. But for all the piety, the neighborhood just gets shittier and shittier.
I was actually hoping to from a co-op and buy that place. Alas, I have no money, nor the right connections...
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