The Georgia Baptist Mission Board has sold a five-story office building and adjacent property in Duluth to a hotel developer for $23.5 million, bringing an end to a years-long search for a buyer.
The buyer, JMS Family Companies of Duluth, plans to convert the office building into a high-end boutique hotel that provides more personalized services than traditional hotels.
The Georgia Baptist Executive Committee had begun discussions on the need to sell the 40-acre Sugarloaf Parkway property more than a decade ago because the building was much larger than needed for the Mission Board staff. Selling the building was also seen as a means to cut utility, maintenance and operational costs, allowing more funding to go to missions and ministry.
The Mission Board staff had moved out of the building in December 2022, relocating to temporary space at Hebron Baptist Church in Dacula pending the sale of the building.