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Church House

1.  Renovation/Reconfiguration

· Reconfigure first floor to accommodate all offices

· Waterproof basement to provide meeting/classroom space

· Increase the current apartment size by renovating the 2nd & 3rd floors to create a three-bedroom apartment to be used for:

à Associate minister

à Tenant

à Outreach project

· Concerns

à No relief of maintenance burden

à Considerable capital required

à Accessibility and aesthetics of basement meeting space

 

2. Demolition and Rebuilding (MUMC to develop the property)

· Underlying assumptions (input from Ernie Harris, architect, Richard Mintzer, commercial mortgage loan broker, and Sue Jones, SPR member who researched apartment rents in the area):

à Costs for new construction of the type envisioned is minimum $200/sqft

à Using only the commercially-zoned portion of the CH lot, a viable building can be no more than three stories tall

à Realistic sized building on that lot is 7,000 sqft footprint

à Thus, a three story building is 7,000 X 3 = 21,000 sqft

à Church would keep for its needs (offices + conference/classrooms) 4,000 sqft, leaving 17,000 sqft of rentable space

à Estimated income from the building would be as follows:

17,000/1,200 sqft per apartment = 14 apartments

                                                                                                                  x $2,500/month

                                                                                     = $35,000/month

 

                                                                                     – 15% vacancy factor

                                                                                     = $29,750 monthly income

Note that the average occupancy could easily be less than 85%, which would lower

average monthly income.

· Cost of demolition = $60,000-$75,000

· Cost of construction

                              21,000 sqft x $200         = $4,200,000

                              Plus      10% overrun             420,000 → Safety factor

                                                                        $4,620,000

                          Plus interim interest             202,125 → 8.75% x Cost/2

                                                                                       [average loan is half the cost]

                          Total Cost                         $4,822,125

· Monthly mortgage requirements:

             $4,822,125 at 30 years at 6.50% = $30,470/mo; greater than approx. income $29,750/mo

 

             $4,822,125 at 25 years at 7.50% = $35,610/mo; greater than approx. income $29,750/mo

 

 

 

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