The 150-year-old Shiloh Baptist Church, located in Graduate Hospital, is set to be converted into 87 residential units by TierView Development, writes Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
The Philadelphia developer would repurpose the five-building historic church at 2030-2050 Christian Street into an apartment complex.
The central and oldest structure on the site is a sanctuary at the corner of 21st and Christian streets. Partially designed by famed architect Frank Furness, it dates back to the early 1870s.
Since purchasing the property in 2023 for $472,000, TierView has been navigating the planning and entitlement processes and has recently secured zoning permits from the city. The conversion marks the developer’s largest adaptive reuse project in its 13-year history.
According to Jenn Patrino, principal at TierView, the project will cost more than $20 million.
Before purchasing the property, Patrino and her team spoke with the church leadership to assure them that they were planning on preserving the building’s historic character rather than demolishing it, as some developers might have done.
“I think that that was part of why our offer stood out,” said Patrino.
Read more about Shiloh Baptist Church and the redevelopment that will shape its future in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
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