MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Madeleine Baran Feb 24, 2015
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis plans to sell its chancery office and three other properties to help pay creditors in bankruptcy, chief financial officer Tom Mertens told a creditors’ committee meeting Tuesday.
“Our plan would be that we would sell these four properties assuming that the offer price is adequate,” Mertens said in an interview after the meeting.
Mertens said the archdiocese will ask a bankruptcy trustee for permission to sell a property in Northfield and three St. Paul buildings: The chancery offices on Summit Avenue, the Msgr. Ambrose Hayden Center on Kellogg Boulevard and the Dayton Building.
Many of the archdiocese’s employees work in the chancery or the Hayden Center. Archbishop John Nienstedt lives in the chancery, which is across the street from the Cathedral of St. Paul, the largest and best-known landmark in the Twin Cities archdiocese.
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