An existing one-story brick church in the downtown Triangle Neighborhood of Phoenix may be repurposed as an apartment complex.
Officials with the Mercy Hill Church say the building, which features a nave with intricate wooden ceiling cross beams, is now under contract to be sold to the Dallas-based Trumont Group.
That company specializes in investing in and developing large residential properties in both the Lone Star State and Arizona.
Located at 745 W. Fillmore Street, in a neighborhood of modest homes and some new apartment construction, the church building has some structural issues, including a partially collapsed roof.
In selling the property, Mercy Hill has announced that it will build a new worship facility on land nearby.
For more than 20 years dating to the early 1980s the building was known as the Church on Fillmore, before becoming, within the last decade, the Mercy Hill Church.
A schedule for when work on the church will begin has not yet been announced.
The Trumont Group has completed multi-story apartment projects ranging in size from 228 units to 374 units respectively in Fort Worth and the city of Benbrook, Texas.
By Garry Boulard
