- NIA
The ongoing saga of Fifth Church of Christ Scientist – a years-long struggle to keep the building intact and, eventually in use – continues this month with two prospects reportedly signalling interest to repurpose the place.
The gist of this latest proposal is to convert the church into a state-of-the-art fitness and wellness facility. As a marquee item of interest, the prospects have mentioned rock-climbing as one major aspect of the project. Here’s Jeon Francis, spokesman for Neighbors in Action, with more:
In addition to rock climbing, the center would offer yoga, massage, a large collaborative workspace encased in glass with a dynamic view of the rock wall (patrons may enjoy this quiet space for studying, meditating, reading, congregating with others, or WiFi), and a juice bar and café, empowering and teaching healthy living activities and programs to everyone ranging from school-age children and young families to single people and older adults of all sizes.
This article appears in Jan 22-28, 2014.
That would be nice…
Awesome.
I say lets do this!!!
As long as any development has a long-term vision fused with cash — that it won’t be padlocking the doors after a few years after rolling the dice on a long-shot business plan — then steps should be made to bring the blueprint into the public domain…..and allow the debate to begin.
I find it funny that people havent snatch this up already…back in the day all of us wanted to turn this into a cool bar or club lol
As cool as this idea is, I’m not optimistic about it actually happening. Some big corporation will grease the right pockets and gain access to the site.