St. Paul's Place, Inc.

St. Paul’s Place is the 1920’s era apartment building located at 608 Summit Street, right next to St. Paul’s Church. St. Paul's has owned the property since 1983. St. Paul’s Place, Inc. has a nine-member Board of Directors and is structured as an autonomous corporate entity. However, St. Paul’s is its sole shareholder and its directors are all elected from the St. Paul’s parish family. It also comes under the general oversight of the Vestry, with Vestry and clergy representatives serving as non-voting members on the Board of Directors.

An accidental fire in September 2004 did extensive damage to St. Paul’s Place and provided the Vestry with an opportunity to reconsider the St. Paul’s Place building and its use in furthering the overall mission of the church. The Vestry decided to divide the building into two uses: an Outreach Center and traditional residential apartment units. Accordingly, when the building was reoccupied in mid-2006, the first two floors were set aside for the church's Outreach Center and the St. Paul's Place to Stay ministry and the upper two floors of the building remained as eight traditional apartment units.

St. Paul’s Place is fully occupied in a renovated building with an elevator, sprinkler system, and improved security system. The Outreach Center and the St. Paul's Place to Stay apartments are operating according to the church's mission, and all of the eight residential units are leased. Clearly, much good has come from a bad fire at St. Paul's Place.