WatermarkвЂ™s newly purchased site housed an eight-story, 150,000-square-foot office tower that the church originally believed it would tear down in favor of building entirely new facilities from the ground up. The design of the master plan and the architecture was a collaborative effort between the church itself, the architect, and the AVL team. Thus began a three-phase design and construction effort that would produce two auditoriums, a chapel, youth and childrenвЂ™s facilities, a multipurpose space, numerous classrooms, and a multitude of gathering spaces.В Over the course of more than 10 years, WatermarkвЂ™s leadership worked with Omniplan, a local architectural firm, as well as Idibri, an Addison, Texas-based consultancy focusing on acoustics, theatrical design, and audio, video, and lighting, to bring this project to fruition. The churchвЂ™s continued growth mandated the need for a permanent home, which in 2003, WatermarkвЂ™s leadership found in the form of a 13-acre plot of land next to Interstate 635 in Dallas.

For their first six years together, the members of Watermark Community Church gathered first in each otherвЂ™s living rooms, and then, as membership grew, in hotel ballrooms and high school auditoriums.

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