A portion of a former Macy’s store on the east side of Colorado Springs will soon repurposed by a popular and expanding local church.
The Zeal Church, which is currently operating out of a large space at the nearby Creekside Event Center at 5515 Palmer Park Boulevard, has purchased the lower level of the Macy’s site for $3.5 million.
The 97,000 square-foot site at the Citadel Mall, located at 750 Citadel Drive, has been vacant since 2019 when the Macy’s company announced it was closing nearly a dozen underperforming stores nationally.
Macy’s overall footprint at the Citadel Mall exceeded 195,000 square feet on two levels. The second floor of the former store has since been taken over by an elementary charter school. That adaptive reuse, creating a dozen classrooms, came with a $5.6 million price tag.
The Zeal Church, with a congregation in excess of 2,000 people, was launched in the fall of 2020. According to reports, the church is planning what will be a three-phase renovation of the old store space, a project expected to cost around $3 million, with work on the first phase beginning by mid-summer.
By Garry Boulard
