Church Blocks view and ends sale.

(Alternate blog title: "God really knows how to be a kill joy!")
So all week long I have been "ranting and raving" about the high rise luxury condo we just had completed staging and how the priced was raised and how a person who had first scene it at the lower price was now considering it at the higher price after touring it 2 more times (for a total of three tours). Well this staging story does not have a happy ending.

The buyer opted NOT to buy this beauty, out of fears that the new Episcopal Diocesan Office building which is scheduled to be built in the block north of this condo would obstruct the amazing view.

The Episcopal Church desperately needs new office space to support its growing ministries and came up with a GREAT idea to lease the land they own to a developer who would then build a 63 story tower.

This new building (only one block off of Chicago's famed Magnificent mile shopping district) would not only house the new diocesan offices, but condos, shopping and a Canyon Ranch Hotel and Spa. Actually I gotta admit it is really a GREAT solution... and is not going to cost the Diocese anything to build their facilities... so the monies that would typically go to building... can go to those in need.

How do I know all this... that's my church. But sometimes you gotta laugh at the irony in life. How I would have loved to tell the story of Staging a place and having the price raised and it being sold in 4 days to a person that originally toured it at the lower price. But to be honest... I'd rather tell the story of a great church doing amazing work for those in need in the world.