For the past seven years he has helped relocate several area congrega- tions. Most of my showings were to religious organizations. I could see there was a market. As the former president of Beth El Ner Tamid, Loeb understands what it takes for a religious organization to acquire and maintain a building. I try to help them get financing.
Some properties have conditional use permits and other strings attached.
Many of his clients meet in places other than churches before they gain the critical mass needed to purchase a building. Often the new building will be a store front and sometimes relocation of other groups to larger facilities cre- ates a cascade effect, allowing smaller congregations to take over the former space. I like to call it adaptive reuse of spaces. In one case he turned a former bank into a mosque. In another, he sold a funeral home to a church looking to set up an inner city ministry.