Amy Grant

My family has many generations in Nashville, but the only time I ever entered the building was when I was five and a half years old and I went to his funeral.

Okay.

Are we singing today?

And so Andy was the first one to just start calling.

And, you know, there was a recorded message about welcoming people to services.

And finally he went down there and said, hey, it's like boarded up.

And then he finally was able to get somebody on the phone.

Whoever it was said, is this an adversarial call?

And Andy said, no, I just, I'm curious about what's going on at this location.

And this was a family property.

I can see the boarded-up church.

So my job continues to put me in a sight line of a boarded-up church.

Now it's just stripped of everything.

It's stripped of everything, including water services and electricity.

I go, yeah, he was my great-grandfather.

I might want to step into this.

Well, I think the intention of A.M.

Burton was to create a space that helped the Nashville community, that saw human life as valuable, the housed, the unhoused.

in his words, the pauper and the successful businessman.

And my cousin and I just saw a situation where what was left of that investment was not being used for anything, and the buildings boarded up.