Church Facilities

Passion

Crossroads Community Church - Parker, CO Development Advisors (“Advisors”) principals have a passion for serving churches with their facility expansion plans here in Colorado. We are church real estate and facility development experts. We understand church operations and finance. Our strategic planning give our Clients a clear view of the size and the total costs it can afford for a future facility project. Advisors’ passion aligns with its Principals’ personal values and goals.

Purpose

Advisors help its church Clients create new places for worship, teaching, fellowship and community outreach. We lead our church Clients through the process of acquiring land and developing a new facility or acquiring an existing building and renovating.

Property

While Advisors generally helps its church Clients acquire property, Advisors can also help its church Clients dispose of their current real estate for the highest possible selling price. While church properties historically trade between $50-100/SF, sometimes a higher selling price can be achieved by contemplating a redevelopment of the property for a different use. In this scenario, Advisors employs a Strategic Disposition approach described in more detail by clicking here.

Problem Solving

The ability of churches to expand and relocate is becoming increasingly difficult to accomplish because land and building costs continue to skyrocket and some local governments are proactively excluding non-profit (non-taxpaying) users from their undeveloped subdivisions. In today's environment, finding the best solutions to a church's real estate needs often requires creative, outside-the-box thinking and execution. Advisors provide this highly specialized expertise.

Advisors provide the following services for its church real estate Clients:

  • strategic relocation planning;
  • financial feasibility analysis pertaining to potential land or building acquisitions;
  • listing and marketing of existing property;
  • acquisition of new property including comprehensive property searches (may include identification of redevelopment candidates);
  • comprehensive project management including team selection (architects, engineers, consultants, general contractors, etc.);
  • project finance coordination;
  • construction management;
  • FF&E planning & move coordination; and
  • as needed, comprehensive and coordinated communication with all decision-makers involved with a church’s real estate decisions (church staff, elders, real estate committee, members and national organization).

Practical Experience

Some of Advisors recent experiences include:

Living Way Fellowship – a recently completed 500-seat (30,000 SF) church in Highlands Ranch, Colorado;

Mission Hills Church – a recently completed 1,700-seat (100,000 SF) church in Littleton, CO;

Stapleton Fellowship Church – a recently renovated former airplane hangar in Stapleton (Denver, CO) with a 300-seat auditorium and related education and administrative spaces (14,000 SF);

Colorado Community Church (Englewood) – recently acted as Listing agent for the sale of this $6.55 million, 75,000 SF Class A Church property located in Cherry Hills Village, CO;

Crossroads Community Church (Parker) – in 2011, acted as Buyer’s agent and project manager for the acquisition and renovation of a 45,000 SF former Chrysler Jeep automotive facility in Parker, CO. In 2012 performed a $1 million Phase 2 expansion and currently acting as project manager for a $4 million expansion; and

Lookout Mountain – recently completed the sale (February, 2013) of the former 67,000 SF Lookout Mountain Community Church property located in Genesee (Golden, CO) to Flatirons Community Church (Lafayette, CO).

Professional Assistance

Advisors Principals strongly recommend that churches hire professional assistance for their real estate projects. By doing so, the church is able to focus on what it does best-expanding the kingdom. Utilizing church members to manage expansion or development projects is usually not the best solution to accomplish Church objectives as this may lead to conflicts of interest that can harm long-standing relationships within the church. The direct involvement of church members in project management often interferes with accountability and can compromise a church Client's opportunity to obtain the best service and prices possible.

You may learn more about Advisors' experience by viewing our Projects page.

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