Remodel and Construction News

Welcome to MBC Next and our Near Term Projects

To make it simpler to handle, we have organized the different projects into three groups of work. The groups represent a set of plans that are organized together and submitted to the city at one time for approval and permits. In addition, we work with our General Contractor in these groups, with their bids and contracts organized in this manner. Currently the three groups we are working on are:

Sanctuary Expansion: This is the largest grouping of projects. It centers around an addition to the front of the Sanctuary (toward the street) for new ministry rooms and bathrooms. However, it also includes the remodel of the Children’s area, the expansion and remodel of the lobby/entrance, as well as the Fellowship Hall Bathrooms (on the north end of the Children’s wing).

Fellowship Hall. This is the work to remodel the hall by removing the current drop ceiling and opening it up to it's original look, as well as upgrading the interior of the hall. It also includes the remodel and expansion of the kitchen, and the site wide electrical upgrade.

Fischer Bathroom Remodel: This is the remodel of most, if not all, the bathrooms in the Fischer building, including the expansion of two downstairs bathrooms into ADA compliant bathrooms.

Note: For a fuller description and list of projects in this phase, and potential future phases, click on the button called “Plans”.

Current Overall Status and What to Expect Next

February 27th:

[New 2/27] The Hall demolition in support of the remodeling began on 2/19. The soft demo and remediation efforts have been completed. We do wait for some city approvals on specific kitchen work, but will continue on general efforts of upgarding the hall - repairing the ceiling, cleaning up the walls, installing new A/C ducting, etc.

NOTE - this means that the Hall and Kitchen are now unusable.

[New 2/23] Fischer Bathroom Remodels, we resumed work on the Fischer bathrooms on 2/23 - specifically the 2nd floor west bathrooms. Currently they are being demo'd, including remediation efforts.

NOTE - the 2nd floor, west bathrooms are now unusable. The upstairs east bathrooms are fully available.

[New 2/27] The Sanctuary - we continue to work through the city's additional comments. We had a very good conversation with the Public Works department - and while we didn't get the removal of some requirements, they are working with us on key elements, most notably the timing. We can work off some of the historical anomolies of our lot and its certification concurrently with the construction - so we won't be held up for months, just a few weeks as we put together the paperwork. In addition, we will not be required to do some street improvments, but we will have to pay into a city fund for future imporvements (we have not yet gottent their assesment of what that value will be, pray for a kind assesment!).

As a result, though we have had good converstations, we do not yet have a start date for the Sanctuary efforts. and it is probably several weeks away. To be clear, these issues come up because of the addition, and not the remodeling of the existing buildings. Please pray for the team as we review our options on how to proceed with both the city as well as our projects.