Parishioners of St. Andrew in Riverton, Utah have celebrated Mass in a rectory basement, a movie theater and, for the last 18 years, their school gym.
But after two decades without a dedicated worship space, the community is raising $35 million to build a basilica-style church from the ground up — on a 10-acre plot of land in one of the largest walkable, mixed-use developments in the United States.
With mixed-use developments on the rise in the United States, the model being pursued by St. Andrew’s could be a new paradigm in parish campus designs.
“We see a real opportunity to integrate the parish community into a neighborhood, rather than it just being the place that everybody has to commute to for Sunday Mass,” Kevin Mauer, a member of the parish’s building committee, told The Pillar.
The neighborhood, Daybreak, is a planned community in South Jordan, Utah that first broke ground in 2004 and will continue to develop over the next several decades. Its pedestrian- and cyclist-oriented mix of commercial, residential and recreational spaces typify the values of “new
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