Georgia

Christ Covenant Church bought Piedmont Place, a 94,000-square-foot Buckhead office building, for $16.9 million, planning to run it as a multi-tenant office at first and later add a 2,500-seat sanctuary.

Christ Covenant Church bought Piedmont Place, a 94,000-square-foot Buckhead office building, for $16.9 million, planning to run it as a multi-tenant office at first and later add a 2,500-seat sanctuary.

The Episcopal Diocese of Georgia kept two former church properties, in Savannah and Augusta, and turned them into busy community hubs with food pantries, meals, recovery groups, classes and worship, rather than selling them.

Turner Monumental AME Church in Atlanta’s Kirkwood neighbourhood proposed 47 micro-units for low-income seniors and formerly homeless people on 0.66 acres, but residents opposed it and the neighbourhood planning unit rejected the rezoning.

A planned $8 million sale of Covenant Baptist Church in DeKalb County, Georgia, fell through after a lender’s $2.5 million in bridge funding was used to pay off the church’s mortgage. A judge ruled the church owed the money; it appealed.