By Eric Curl / Savannahagenda.com
Sept. 8, 2022 update – The Savannah City Council approved Hearse Ghost Tours plan to renovate and use the building for parking its hearses, as recommended by the Metropolitan Planning Commission.
Aug. 17, 2022 – While dead people are the basis of the business, dead vehicles could kill it.
To protect 10 converted hearses from the wicked elements, the owner of Hearse Ghost Tours is planning on resurrecting the vacant building at 1501 East Broad St. as a parking garage for the Savannah tour company’s vehicles, as approved by the Metropolitan Planning Commission on Tuesday.
The historic building has had many uses over the years, including a frozen food lockers facility from 1916 past 1955, according to the MPC. The Victory Prayer Synagogue also brought the spirit alive in the building, as demonstrated in this 2016 Youtube video. And the praise team unleashed the soul during this 2012 service, while life is celebrated right during this Facebook post from a funeral (RIPUncleKeith) in April 2019.
Sabrina Wenum purchased the property from the synagogue for $203,000 in June 2020, according to the property record.
The building now sits vacant and boarded up, but will be renovated as part of the plan, as submitted by the tour company’s owner, Carol Higgins. The project will provide an an alternative parking option to the outdoor lot across the street that the tour company currently uses. That outdoor lot will in turn be used for employee parking.
The proposed parking facility would only be used for the purpose of storing the tour vehicles and taking them out for evening hours, as proposed.
The ghost tour company provides three evening tours Monday through Sunday, seven days a week at 6 p.m., 8 p.m., and 10 p.m.
The parking plan will next have to go before the Savannah City Council for approval before being implemented.
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