Churches have congregants with valuable skills including real estate and development experience. But rarely does a church have volunteers who have developed a fully functioning commercial church facility. Every church needs the guidance of professionals. Development Advisors now have years of learning (and making mistakes) how to execute these church specific projects.
Let us give you an example. Even though Mission Hills Church had volunteers with the skills and years of experience with commercial ground-up projects, they chose Advisors to lead them through the process of developing their new 100,000 SF church facility. Why did they hire a church specific developer?
- All volunteers had full-time careers with no margin to lead a time consuming project.
- They desired a professional firm to be accountable to the building committee.
- They lacked experience with the design, financing and construction of a church facility.
Congregants with valuable skills are best suited to participate in a committee responsible for the facility project.
This Mission Hills New Building Committee was a “Who’s Who” of local and national organizations including:
- Former City Manager of the City of Littleton
- Principal of Weitz Construction (International construction firm)
- Principal of EKS&H (largest Colorado CPA and business consulting firm)
- Principal of MOA Architects (prominent commercial architectural firm)
- Principal of MTech (leading mechanical systems provider)
- Vice President of Wells Fargo
- Principal of a Private Equity Firm
- Real Estate Attorney
Advisors successfully led the site acquisition, rezoning, financing, design, engineering, construction and outfitting (AVL and FF&E) of this beautiful new church facility including regularly meeting with and reporting back to this amazing group of congregant volunteers.