⇑ Latest
↑ Later
Earlier ↓
Earliest ⇓
Jun 13, 2008
Scientologists planning move to larger quarters — San Diego Business Journal
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ned Randolph Source:
San Diego Business Journal The local chapter of the Church of Scientology is selling its downtown headquarters at 1330 Fourth Ave. and moving operations to La Mesa, where the organization recently purchased a site for $9.3 million, according to the chapter president. The new location off Interstate 8, the former site of La Mesa Bowl and a private college campus, features two buildings totaling more than 64,400 square feet of space and 410 parking spaces for the chapter's 18,000 members, says President David Meyer. It ...
Jun 8, 2008
Beleaguered building - Church-owned Old Pas site vacant and in need of repairs — Pasadena Star-NewsMore: pasadenastarnews.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Janette Williams Source:
Pasadena Star-News PASADENA - Exactly two years after the Church of Scientology bought the historic Braley Building in Old Pasadena - and went into high gear to get all 22 small-business tenants out - not a single plan for the promised fast-track conversion has been submitted to the city. The deterioration in the historic 1906 building's appearance - and the inability of city staff to contact the owners about it - has been a source of "frustration," said Eric Duyshart, Pasadena's director of ...
May 27, 2008
Church of Scientology Buys 64,000 Square Feet in La Mesa for $9.3M — San Diego Business JournalMore: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ned Randolph Source:
San Diego Business Journal The San Diego chapter of the controversial Church of Scientology is moving its focus to La Mesa with the May 21 purchase of a Coleman College campus at 7380 Parkway Drive. The Church of Scientology’s San Diego offices are located at 1330 Fourth Ave. between A and Ash streets. The church purchased the new site for $9.3 million. The two buildings, which are 53,400 square feet and 11,000 square feet, will be used as an educational campus, said the broker on ...
Mar 29, 2008
Church of Scientology needs bigger building / Officials want city to rezone former Time Warner site — Columbus Dispatch
Type: Press
Author(s):
Meredith Heagney Source:
Columbus Dispatch The Church of Scientology plans to move into a former Time Warner building on Dublin Road on the Northwest Side, near Grandview Heights. The church has to move out of its Downtown headquarters, 30 N. High St., because there isn't enough room, said the Rev. John Carmichael, president of the Church of Scientology of New York. The new church will be used for Sunday services, classes and counseling, Carmichael said. Plans call for an opening by mid-2009. The church asked the ...
Mar 24, 2008
Church of Scientology buys castle in Jo'burg — Afrik.com
Type: Press
Source:
Afrik.com The Church of Scientology has acquired the famous Johannesburg landmark, the Kyalami Castle, to be the home of its new advanced spiritual retreat.
This marks a significant step for the Scientologists who until now had to travel all the way to the US, Australia or England for their higher spiritual progress, said Paul Sondergaard, National Director of the Church’s Public Affairs Office .
"For all African Scientologists, this is a dream finally come true," Sondergaard said, adding "It means a lot ...
Feb 2, 2008
New life for a landmark — Winnipeg Free Press
Type: Press
Author(s):
Murray McNeill Source:
Winnipeg Free Press The Church of Scientology plans to spend up to $10 million to convert a landmark building in the Exchange District into a church and community outreach centre.
Rev. Yvette Shank, president of the church's Canadian office in Toronto, said the church plans to undertake a major refurbishing of the 115-year-old Peck Building, which it quietly acquired last March for a previously unheard of price for the Exchange of $2.2 million.
"We love it," Shank said of the six-storey, brick-and-stone building at ...
Jan 30, 2008
New role awaits a historic eyesore // Church of Scientology buys former Alexandra Hotel — Boston GlobeMore: boston.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Thomas C. Palmer Jr. Source:
Boston Globe The Church of Scientology of Boston Inc. has bought the historic Alexandra Hotel building at Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue in the South End and plans to relocate its local headquarters from the Back Bay, following extensive renovations. The sales price of the Alexandra - ravaged by fire in the 1993, decayed, empty, and recently eluding City Hall's hopes that it would become residences - was not disclosed by the Rev. Gerard Renna, the top Scientology representative in Boston. The church, ...
Jan 18, 2008
Scientologists' tall new home — The Oregonian (Portland)
Jan 11, 2008
Proposed Downtown Scientology site on hold — New Mexico Business Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom O'Connell Source:
New Mexico Business Weekly At a conditional use hearing today at the Albuquerque Planning Department, the Church of Scientology of New Mexico and those opposed to its plan to turn a landmark Downtown building into a Scientology center were not allowed to outline their respective arguments.
Zoning Hearing Examiner Roberto Albertorio, who presided over the hearing, denied the church an opportunity to present its case, which its attorney, David Campbell, was prepared to do. Albertorio cited jurisdictional problems, saying that any decision he would make ...
Jan 6, 2008
Scientologist HQ Moves To Detroit — WDIV Detroit
Page 1 of 1 :
⇑ Latest
↑ Later
Earlier ↓
Earliest ⇓
Permalink