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Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 25 Never let me down again — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 27 Flexible — BFG Books
Nov 5, 2009
Blown for Good / Behind the iron curtain of Scientology (book) - 30 Christmas island — BFG Books
Apr 9, 2009
Expanding the kingdom — Mail and Guardian (South Africa)
Type: Press
Source: Mail and Guardian (South Africa)
Out of Jo'burg's more dubious architectural landmarks – Montecasino and Ponte come to mind – none is as peculiar as the Kyalami Castle. Built in the 1990s by Greek tycoon Demos Dinopoulos and perched on a hill amid the area's horsey smallholdings, the faux medieval castle's previous incarnations have included a family mansion and a wedding and conference venue. But now it might have found its true calling. Since March 2008 the castle has belonged to the Church of Scientology. It's ...
Apr 7, 2009
Nashville Building make-over invites onlookers — NewsChannel 5 (Nashville, Tennessee)
Type: TV
Source: NewsChannel 5 (Nashville, Tennessee)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Nashville building on the National Registry of Historical places is getting a multi-million dollar makeover. Construction crews are working everyday bringing new life to the old Fall School building. "People are excited to see it returning to its former glory," says business neighbor William Walter. Walter admits the group moving in has raised curiosity. "They're just redoing the whole thing - doors, walls, windows. They took down the fixtures, so that should be a pretty impressive building ...
Mar 22, 2009
Scientology grows with new center — The Tennessean
Type: Press
Author(s): Chris Echegaray
Source: The Tennessean
Controversial religion wants more visibility in Nashville By Chris Echegaray Gannett Tennessee The Church of Scientology is expanding in Nashville, opening what the religion calls a "celebrity centre" at the historic Fall School Business Center on 8th Avenue South and Chestnut Street. Renovations are under way at the 36,000 square-foot building, with an opening expected before summer, said Gaetane Asselin and Wendy Beccaccini, who are overseeing the project. The current location at 1204 16th Ave. S. will close when the new ...
Feb 14, 2009
Église de scientologie au centre-ville: le projet bat de l'aile — La Presse (Montréal, Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Violaine Ballivy
Source: La Presse (Montréal, Canada)
Tous les mois depuis un an, le groupe Anonymous manifeste devant les locaux actuels de l'Église de scientologie, rue Papineau à Montréal. La manifestation a attiré une vingtaine de personnes, hier. Le groupe qualifie le mouvement de «secte» et l'accuse de commettre des abus envers ses membres Photo: Robert Skinner, La Presse Le projet d'expansion de l'Église de scientologie à Montréal a du plomb dans l'aile. Son déménagement au centre-ville, prévu initialement pour 2008, n'aura pas lieu avant la fin de ...
Feb 4, 2009
Église de scientologie dans Saint-Roch: un investissement majeur... et intrigant — Le Soleil (Québec, Canada)
Jan 28, 2009
Church of Scientology goes for zoning change // Printers Row residents worry about parking, solicitation — Chicago Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Micah Maidenberg
Source: Chicago Journal
Church of Scientology members, Printers Row residents and 2nd Ward Alderman Robert Fioretti tussled Tuesday evening over a church Scientologists want to establish at 650 S. Clark. The group is seeking to change the building's zoning from DX-12, a downtown mixed-use district, to DR-10, a downtown residential classification. The change would allow the church to develop their religious center in the empty building without obtaining a special permit from the Zoning Board of Appeals, as the current zoning requires. The group ...
Jan 21, 2009
Scientologists hit out at criticism — Canberra Times (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jano Gibson
Source: Canberra Times (Australia)
THE Church of Scientology has appealed for religious tolerance after its $12 million bid to redevelop its Sydney headquarters sparked fears from neighbours of an increase in "menacing" and "aggressive" recruitment tactics. The church has sought approval from the City of Sydney to add two floors to its five-storey building, Scientology House, on Castlereagh Street. The increased floor space would help turn the building into an "Ideal Org", the name Scientologists give to their most significant churches. But almost 150 people ...
Nov 11, 2008
Scientologerna köper Daniscos kontor (Swedish) ["The Scientologists buy the Danisco office building"] — Skånskan (Sweden)
More: unofficial English translation
Type: Press
Author(s): Marianne Pernbro
Source: Skånskan (Sweden)
The Scientologists buy the Danisco office building The Church of Scientology's Malmö chapter buys the Danisco companys office building, which is an office and audiotorium complex roughly 5000 square meters large. To this spot they will move their work force that today consists of 30 employees in an 400 square meter office. At the same time they are recruiting about another hundred employees for the new offices in Arlöv. "We need over 100 workers in Arlöv to be able to deliver ...
Nov 7, 2008
Developers eye opportunities in down market — Columbus Business First
Type: Press
Author(s): Brian R. Ball
Source: Columbus Business First
[...] Andy Mills, an agent with the Continental Realty Ltd. brokerage, said there is interest in the central business district buildings north of Capitol Square with the construction of the Broad and High offices by the Casto real estate group. He said the office building he’s marketing for sale at 30 N. High St. also has steady interest for commercial and residential redevelopments even though the seller, the Church of Scientology, has yet to finalize the date of its move to ...
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-News
More: 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 Journal
More: 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 ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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 ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 30, 2008
New role awaits a historic eyesore // Church of Scientology buys former Alexandra Hotel — Boston Globe
More: 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, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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 ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 6, 2008
Scientologist HQ Moves To Detroit — WDIV Detroit
Oct 28, 2007
It's weird up north as Scientology moves in — The Sunday Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Chris Gourlay
Source: The Sunday Times (UK)
THE Church of Scientology is preparing to expand its creed to the north of England by opening a centre in Manchester next year. The church, which has been criticised as a cult, has paid £3.6m for a disused distillery in the city. It plans to turn the five-storey building, near Old Trafford, into “a place of worship and religious instruction”. The move is part of a world-wide expansion strategy by the American organisation, which was founded by L Ron Hubbard, a ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 28, 2007
Scientology centre planned — Manchester Evening News
Type: Press
Source: Manchester Evening News
THE CHURCH of Scientology is pressing ahead with plans to convert a Trafford distillery into a "place of worship" for hundreds of followers. The controversial group - whose celebrity members include Tom Cruise and John Travolta - bought the Grade II-listed building on Chester Road for a reported £3.6m. Plans to convert it into a "place of worship and religious instruction" were withdrawn earlier this year when the Trafford council expressed concerns about parking. But the Church of Scientology is planning ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 1, 2007
Church of Scientology buys site in Center City — Philadelphia Inquirer
More: web.archive.org
Type: Press
Author(s): Michael Klein
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
It has purchased more spacious quarters on Chestnut Street and plans to expand. Retailers, restaurants and other businesses are flocking to Center City. Now comes another flock. The Church of Scientology last month paid just under $8 million for a vacant 15-story office building and an adjoining one-story former toy store in the heart of downtown: the 1300 block of Chestnut Street — across the street from Macy's and next door to the furniture store Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. The ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 25, 2007
St. Paul / Scientologists plan $7M makeover for new center — St. Paul Twin Cities Pioneer Press
More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Gita Sitaramiah
Source: St. Paul Twin Cities Pioneer Press
The former home of the Science Museum of Minnesota in downtown St. Paul will undergo a $7 million makeover and be unveiled next year as among the largest Church of Scientology centers in the world. Only the spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, Fla., and Los Angeles are bigger than the 80,000-square-foot building at Seventh and Exchange streets, said the Rev. Brian Fesler, the church's director of special affairs in the Twin Cities. "We didn't plan it that way, but I'm happy about ...
Jun 6, 2007
Scientologists snap up heritage home — New Zealand Herald
Type: Press
Author(s): Anne Gibson
Source: New Zealand Herald
The Church of Scientology is stepping up its image and presence here, spending $10 million to buy a prominent Auckland building. The church, which is popular with Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, will move around 100 staff into the building perched above the Southern Motorway at Grafton and run courses from there. It will soon leave Panmure's industrial strip for the building now occupied by the Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, which has two other campus ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 31, 2007
Church, city sparring over spaces — Pasadena Star-News
Type: Press
Author(s): Janette Williams
Source: Pasadena Star-News
Pasadena – Before work has even started on the Church of Scientology's new complex in Old Pasadena, members have clashed with the city over sidewalk tables used to distribute church literature and sign up passers-by for "stress tests." Eden Stein, president of the Scientologists' Pasadena branch, said Tuesday that a church lawyer has written to City Attorney Michele Beale Bagneris and the Police Department to complain that code-enforcement officials were "out of line" in citing them for using the sidewalk for ...
Mar 27, 2007
Scientology's New European Offensive: The March of the 'Orgs' — Spiegel
Type: Press
Author(s): Holger Stark
Source: Spiegel
Scientology has started a new propaganda offensive in Europe, opening new offices in capitals across the continent. German authorities are responding by increasing their efforts to monitor the controversial organization. At first sight, the building in Berlin's Charlottenburg neighborhood looks like a run-of-the-mill office complex: a functional, seven-story construction covered with glass windows. The young receptionist is dressed in black and wears a futuristic-looking headset. But for Scientologists, the building is a chapel, a place for studying their own doctrine and, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 17, 2007
Scientology center heads downtown / The new site will function as a regional administrative hub for the organization — Kansas City Star
Type: Press
Author(s): Kevin Collison
Source: Kansas City Star
The Church of Scientology is moving its offices and worship center to downtown Kansas City and has purchased a historic former bank building at 1801 Grand Blvd. The church plans to occupy the former City Bank Building later this year and then sell its current facility at 39th and Main streets. The global religious organization was founded in the early 1950s by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard and includes among its members Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and John Travolta. The ...
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