City's Mission Chapel Up For Sale
The Mission Chapel on Summer Street at Washington Square in Worcester is once again up for sale.
According to county land records, the historic building is subject to a lien by the city for back taxes. The city owned the building for a time about 15 years ago.
The owner is restaurateur Kurosh Mizrahi, who bought the building in 2004 for $350,000 and intended to develop a restaurant there.
The building is now listed for sale at $750,000, according to Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates, the Worcester-based commercial real estate firm handling the sale.
The chapel was built in 1854 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980, but its more recent history has been controversial.
The building was seized in 1993 by the Worcester Redevelopment Authority, which had slated the property for "urban renewal" as part of the Worcester Medical Center development that includes St. Vincent Hospital. Four years later, the city paid $600,000 to relocate the Second Baptist Church, which worshipped there.
The city later sold the building to Tristano Restoration. Tristano made improvements to the property, but sold it in 2004 to Mizrahi for $350,000. The 7,000-square-foot, brick building sits on a 10,566-square-foot parcel of land at 205 Summer St.
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