A Church Bought a Buckhead Office Building. The Offices Stay, For Now.

Piedmont Place is a roughly 94,000-square-foot office building in Buckhead, and it still is one today. Christ Covenant Church has purchased the property for $16.9 million, with a long-term plan to turn the site into a centralized church campus anchored by a 2,500-seat sanctuary.

What makes this one worth sitting with is the gap between the purchase and the plan. The building is not going dark. In the short term, Christ Covenant intends to keep operating it as a multi-tenant office property, with that use expected to change as the church project moves forward. A project representative has said construction could begin within roughly a year to 18 months, with completion targeted for 2029.

So for the next stretch, the property carries two identities at once:

• Today: a leased Buckhead office building
• Long term: a church campus with a 2,500-seat sanctuary, targeted for 2029

I read this as part of a bigger pattern I keep watching play out across the city. Atlanta is working out what to do with office properties whose future may look nothing like their past, and the buyers making those calls are not always the ones you would expect. An owner who wants the site for something else entirely can still find value in the building while the plans move. For anyone paying attention to Buckhead real estate, the useful question is not just what a building is, but who is holding it and what they intend to do with the years in between.

Between the sale and the sanctuary, this one stays an office building.