Plans to repurpose a church on the southeast corner of Old Litchfield Road and N. Villa Nueva Drive has become a topic of intense debate among some Litchfield residents for reasons of perhaps varying validity.
The project that has managed to cause such a stir in The Park is being called ‘The Thomas’ and seeks to adaptively reuse — though retain the existing structures — at 447 Old Litchfield Road.
The building is currently owned by Vástago Epicentro Phoenix, a church serving non-denominational, primarily Spanish-speaking Christians–but if applicant Brian O’Connor’s request to rezone the church from public facility to neighborhood commercial is successful, that space can be used for things like office space, a cafe and boutique retail.
