A 130,000-square-foot circular worship center is taking shape along the north Houston area, but the massive project has had to navigate the same headaches hitting construction projects everywhere: delayed funding, pricier materials and a steel market with little interest in making life easy.
The Intimidad Con Dios Worship Center is being built by Houston-based Right Choice Construction, whose president and CEO Danielle Wright discussed the project in a sponsored Houston Business Journal report published Saturday. The company describes the church as one of its most ambitious projects yet, both because of its scale and because the building is being designed around a distinctive circular steel structure.
There is a bit of geographic and numerical fine print. Although sponsor materials describe the project as being in Tomball, a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing lists the new church at 2931 FM 2920 in Spring, with an estimated cost of $20 million and a registered size of 124,000 square feet.
A Church Designed As A Full-Service Campus
The planned facility is intended to be much more than a Sunday auditorium. An earlier project announcement carried by PR Newswire said the campus would include a coffee shop, children’s center, common areas, offices, a prayer tower and a recording studio.
The centerpiece is expected to be a multipurpose auditorium with room for about 2,400 people, alongside more than 600 parking spaces. That layout reflects the church’s stated goal of using the site for worship, fellowship and community outreach rather than treating it as a single-use sanctuary.
Intimidad Con Dios’ official website describes the congregation as a multicultural church with members representing more than 18 nations. The church currently operates from its existing Spring location and promotes children’s programming, small groups, food collections and other community-focused activities.
The Hard Part Is Round Steel In A Volatile Market
Large circular steel buildings leave construction teams with less room for improvisation than a conventional box-shaped structure. As the Houston Business Journal report noted, the design requires close coordination among architects, engineers, suppliers and subcontractors so the components arrive and connect in the right sequence.
The project also encountered financial pressure after funding delays overlapped with rising steel tariffs and procurement costs, according to the contractor’s account. Right Choice said it worked with the church, suppliers and other project partners to compare options and keep the work moving while protecting the schedule and budget.
Houston’s Church-Building Boom Has A Complicated Backdrop
The project arrives during a burst of religious construction around the Houston region, even as church attendance and religious identification have declined over the long term. The Houston Chronicle recently pointed to other large projects, including Hope City’s planned 140,000-square-foot campus and a 25,000-square-foot church planned for the Woodlands Hills area.
Those projects are increasingly being designed as community hubs, with cafés, children’s facilities, event space and other amenities folded into the footprint. In that sense, Intimidad Con Dios is following a broader Houston-area strategy: build a place that can stay active throughout the week, not just during services.
The Ribbon-Cutting Is Still Ahead
The project’s timeline appears to have stretched. Right Choice’s March 2025 announcement projected completion by late spring 2026, while the newer sponsor material published Saturday still described the worship center as under construction.
No revised completion date was provided in the latest public materials. For now, the biggest story is not a grand opening but the complicated work of turning an unusually shaped, community-focused vision into a functioning campus—one steel connection, budget decision and procurement headache at a time.
