emanuel and bethel are NOT landmarks
MS. Critique your idea is not a bad one and ill pass it on to the rav. that would be an interesting meeting to attend. i dont think its been done before.
when rav pollak left shomrei emuna and rav cohen took over, for a few weeks they were thinking of forcing the demographic to change. one of teh gabbaim was even considering paying yeshiva bochurim to daven there just to drive in a new crowd. they were going to remove the pews and replace them with tables and chairs. TBH i was disgusted with the idea as were quite a few others and almost all the members of the shul. its a TINY minyan, upstairs in shomrei emuna but it fills a niche that would not be filled if it was a shool for bachurim and im glad that that particular plan fell through.
in my opinion the only way to change the dem,mographic of a shul is if the members agree or if the shul sells. it cant be something forced upon them. how is that right? how is it right that a shul just throws out everything its mispallelim are used to and, in effect, “sells out” just to get more numbers? its so wrong! when shomrei was considering it i was actually considering davening there if i would get paid….but now that i think about it it would have been a disgusting arrangement.