Saturday, October 22, 2005

Old St. Mary's Church site to be developed

Tom Daykin writes in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that this Elm Grove property has been purchased from the parish. A three story condominium complex will be built. If you're familiar with the tract, you might wonder what will happen to the parish's former church, on the east end of the tract.
The former church will be converted into offices.

While it's apparently suitable for conversion into offices, you can probably guess what the parish wanted to do with it.
St. Mary's Parish leaders originally planned to raze the church, saying they had no need for it.

Hard to believe they didn't need offices.
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1 comment:

  1. Dad291:10 PM

    The current Pastor of the parish was the Rector of the Seminary until his arrival at St Mary's about 10 years (+-) ago.

    Read between the lines.

    The spending habits of this individual led to a cash-crunch which required asset-disposition.

    As to offices: they have plenty, now carved out of the rectory which used to house priests.

    Next project: to build a "welcoming room" addition to the Church. This, of course, is meant to compete directly with the Elmbrook Church schema.

    The Associate Pastor of St Mary's is another first-class suspect, too--first clue is that he cannot read what is written in the Missal.

    Read between the lines...

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