Redevelopment/value-add ideas for an old Mormon church in SLC?
I have no relationship with the seller or listing broker. 


[Mormon church for sale.](https://www.cbre.com/properties/properties-for-lease/commercial-space/details/US-SMPL-73712?view=isSale)

Other than another putting in another church, a residential conversion would be a fun opportunity to get creative. This is zoned R-2.

I’m thinking you keep the basketball court, turn the baptismal font into a hot tub, and put in some higher quality finishes for an amenity-rich condo project. 

Is there any other play here?
[{"id": "iw3ibei", "text": "Run it as a church - that way you don't have to pay any taxes and also get 10% of the income of all your congregants.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iw3nd69", "text": "In Chicago there have been a number of churches to condos/apartments over the last decade - definitely the most common use of old churches. But we also have a lot of godless heathens here and SLC folk might be reticent to live inside a church.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iw3r6wd", "text": "Small world - I know the listing team (former CBRE). I\u2019m gonna bet the church is trying to sell the asset and has refigured congregations either around a new one. And is trying to sell it as a land play (like the listing states)", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iw3wko6", "text": "SLC is hyper religious. You'll be playing to the ex-mo/alternative crowd there. That's a pretty limited market comprised of people who probably wouldn't find the building particularly interesting.\n\nLess stereotypically -  \n\nI'm familiar with a lot of the church conversions in the midwest and honestly they're more structurally significant. Part of the success is in preserving notable architecture. This looks like a budget build, run of the mill suburban church with generic design that's not well suited for a residential conversion (huge floor plate, tiny windows, weird layout).\n\nI agree with the below poster. your best roi would be fleecing people as a priest", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iw5b8hf", "text": "Turn it into an IRS office for their agents investigating tax fraud by \u201cchurches\u201d", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iw7qc1t", "text": "What are your land use/zoning regulations like in SLC? Here in Hawaii a church is considered a public/quasi-public use and if a similar property were sold here the buyer would have to use it for a similar purpose (church, school, community center, etc.)  or else go through a long, expensive and difficult process to change the land use designation to a category that would permit housing or commercial use.Think years. Do your due diligence before you start imagining a repurposing of the space.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]