Pursuits
New York City Boom Heaven Sent for Churches Selling Land
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After getting ordained in 2012, the Rev. Christopher Ballard was assigned to a historic Episcopal church in Brooklyn, New York, and got to work on a key part of his new job: real estate development.
Ballard, 49, decided to sell the rectory of the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew as well as an adjacent parking lot -- 43,000 square feet (4,000 square meters) of buildable residential space behind the landmarked church in Clinton Hill. The site is listed for $8.6 million, money that would help cover maintenance on a house of worship that dates to 1891.