North Wales Borough Council is another step closer toward turning St. Luke’s United Church of Christ at 125 N. Main St. and its attached offices — which it purchased in 2016 due to declining church membership — into a community resource center now that it unanimously adopted a contract with outside consultant CM3 Building Solutions to guide them through the process, according to The Reporter.
According to the report, the firm will develop a project plan and financing sources as early as 2023.
The upgrade project has a $3.2 million price tag, but a $1.2 million grant from Montgomery County that the borough was awarded in July will go toward the cost. Council also recently approved a grant seeking up to $1 million in state funding for the project, per the article.
One future goal of the community center is to provide a resource for nonprofits and groups to help those in need in emergency situations, per the report.
“We were already working with several different agencies, if you will, and consultants, to find the best plan that was suitable for 125 N. Main,” Borough Manager Christine Hart said in the article.
According to the article, the current approval “carries no cost” and borough staff will work alongside CM3, which, Hart said, will “work interactively with selected contractors and kind of take the heat for inspections.”
“At the end of the day, if we as a council feel we cannot go any further, or have to delay the project, or can’t do as much as they recommend, at all times we would have control of that,” Hart said.
CM3 completed a similar design-build project in Upper Dublin Township on what is now the township’s library.
Read more about the upgrades at this link.
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