The Four Amigos - Beloved Community
Coming in 2025

We’re turning our dream to provide affordable housing into a reality…

El Centro de la Raza (ECDLR) is partnering with Church of Hope and the NW WA synod to purchase the properties on Angeline Street between 38th-39th Avenues to develop a mixed-use building consisting of affordable housing for families, a child development center, and a worship/community space for Church of Hope at our current location.

Since Church of Hope first started in 2010, it has been our dream to live into the vision of shared community space and affordable housing on our site. Thanks to the gift of the previous congregation at this site, Bethlehem Lutheran, we are now moving forward toward this vision! Church of Hope’s Leadership Team enthusiastically supports this new partnership, and we have great admiration and respect for ECDLR’s leadership in the community on justice and equity.

The development will have two, non-residential condominium units on the ground floor of the building. One unit will be the community and worship church space for the Church of Hope. While it will be much smaller than our current space, we are designing the space to better meet the needs of our congregation as well as many recovery and other community groups that share the current space and will hopefully join us in the new space when it is complete.

In addition to the church, the site will include nearly 90 apartments of affordable housing for families, including offering one, two and three-bedroom apartment at 30-60% Average Median Income (AMI). There will be outreach and orientation workshops with translation assistance for those who wish to apply for housing once construction is underway. The redevelopment will also feature a dual language, multicultural child development center with four classrooms and outdoor play space. El Centro de la Raza already operates several children’s programs in the city, and their bilingual, multicultural curriculum emphasizes cultural diversity, social justice, and family involvement to develop a child’s self-awareness, cultural pride, and self-esteem.

More details and project updates available at https://www.elcentrodelaraza.org/get-help/housing-economic-development/columbia-city/.

Projected Timeline:

October 2022: Church of Hope moves out of current space; services continue online on Zoom and at Kin On in South Seattle

Spring 2023: Construction begins on El Centro Columbia City

January 2025: Residences are ready for community members

Spring 2025: Interior construction on new Church of Hope space

Fall 2025: Church of Hope returns to our remodeled space!