In a hot real estate market, what happens to old church buildings?
Church leaders, developers, and urban planners face tough questions as they attempt to halt the abandonment and sell-off of centuries-old structures.
(The Christian Science Monitor) When Drew Sinclair, a Toronto architect, sets out to repurpose a church—a growing niche in his field across the West—he is guided by a teaching found in the Bible.
It is the parable of the talents, which was shared with him by an Anglican bishop whose congregation was wrestling with its own redevelopment.
To Sinclair, a principal of the architectural firm SvN, if dwindling congregants in buildings on prime real estate are unwilling to budge, they may end up burying their possibilities.
