The small group of Original Highlands residents who met Tuesday night are gearing up for battle as it faces the possibility that Wayside Christian Mission will buy the Mercy Academy property on Broadway.
In an e-mail sent by the group’s leader, John Gilderbloom, it’ s clear that the OHNA (Original Highlands Neighborhood Group) is prepared to […]

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Fears that the old Mercy Academy complex could become a “Walmart of homeless shelters” fueled a meeting of 11 members of the Old Highlands Neighborhood Association last night at O’Shea’s on Bardstown Road.
Organized by John Gilderbloom (pictured here, center, with Lisa Turner and Kristen Riddick), the meeting was set up to determine what questions should […]

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The Wayside Christian Mission has its eyes on vacant property on East Broadway in the former Mercy Academy building.
When Wayside signed an agreement to sell its East Market property at the end of June, it said it would relocate those facilities to East Jefferson, where it could build a new structure. But now, its leadership […]

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This sign, posted along the East Market corridor, may be all that’s left of plans to expand the Wayside Christian Mission’s homeless services in this location, now that a group led by developer Gill Holland has offered Wayside more than $5 million to move its facilities elsewhere.
It’s no surprise that on Sunday, the C-J reported […]

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If you know enough about the ongoing story of the Wayside Christian Mission, it’s kind of laughable for Rev. Tim Moseley to write in this morning’s C-J that it was “difficult” to sell the property on East Market Street.
At the risk of sounding politically incorrect — after all, no one wants to be pegged as […]

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Those 10 blocks on East Market are much more likely to develop into retail, upscale housing and restaurants, now that Wayside Christian Mission has agreed to accept a $5 million buyout on the property. The buyers are a group headed by Gill Holland and his wife, Augusta Brown Holland.
Wayside is holding a press conference any […]

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