After decades of Sunday services, a 75-year-old church in Historic Uptown is preparing to take on a new role in the neighborhood by becoming housing for local residents.
The former Pinellas Vietnamese Church of the Nazarene, located at 1225 9th Avenue North, will be adaptively reused into 20 workforce housing apartments.
The project is being led by local property owners and real estate investors Joshua and Danielle Neitz, who purchased the church and its adjacent parking lot for $1.325 million in February…