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Mar 31, 2011
KCET-TV said to be in talks to sell landmark studio to Church of Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Vincent ,
Scott Collins Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Financially strapped KCET-TV is in talks to sell its landmark Sunset Boulevard studio to the Church of Scientology, according to people who know about the pending deal. The Los Angeles television station, which is struggling to rebuild viewership after its recent split from PBS, plans to move its operations to a smaller location, real estate brokers said. Station officials have been touring potential sites, brokers said. Terms of the potential deal were unavailable, but the 4.5-acre property at 4401 W. Sunset ...
Mar 31, 2009
Church of Scientology announces grand opening of fully rebuilt landmark Fort Harrison religious retreat — FOX Business
Type: Press release
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FOX Business CLEARWATER, Fla., March 31, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —-In connection with the Church's rapid international growth and the continuing expansion of its spiritual headquarters in Florida, the Church of Scientology held the grand opening of the Fort Harrison, the second facility completed in just the last 18 months to accommodate the influx of thousands of parishioners to the Church's spiritual headquarters and religious retreat As part of its continuing expansion, on March 14, 2009 the Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization ...
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 ...
Nov 29, 2007
Scientology to operate from landmark site — The Times (South Africa)More: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Monica Laganparsad Source:
The Times (South Africa) A LANDMARK Durban building sold to the Church of Scientology in Africa is to become the headquarters for its community work in the province. A LANDMARK Durban building sold to the Church of Scientology in Africa is to become the headquarters for its community work in the province. Scientology, popularised by Hollywood heavyweights Tom Cruise and John Travolta, has a growing following in South Africa. The Morningside building, in the city's dining and nightlife hub, was formerly an hotel. It was ...
Sep 29, 2007
Scientology has big plans for landmark // Church leaders say the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater will have an extensive overhaul. — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jacob H. Fries Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology is in announcement mode again, this time saying it will spend $20-million on a major upgrade of its iconic Fort Harrison Hotel. But what church officials aren't saying is exactly when the work will start. So, expect some eye rolls. That's because across the street from the Fort Harrison is Scientology's seven-story Super Power building. Stuccoed, trimmed and painted on the outside, the huge building is unfinished and vacant on the inside. And, remarkably, it's ...
Apr 13, 2006
Church of Scientology to buy Santa Ana landmark building — Orange County Register
Type: Press
Author(s):
Marlo Jo Fisher ,
Amy Taxin Source:
Orange County Register The Church of Scientology is buying Santa Ana's former Masonic Temple.
SANTA ANA - Developer Mike Harrah is selling Santa Ana's historic downtown Masonic Temple, which he spent millions restoring as a performing-arts center, to the Church of Scientology.
The sale has drawn the ire of some historic preservationists.
The building is one of four that Harrah said he's selling to raise money to build his high-rise tower downtown.
Church spokeswoman Marie Murillo said the building is being purchased for an ...
Apr 5, 2006
Interview with Glen Stollery of ScienTOMogy.info — Wikinews
Nov 17, 1996
Landmark Riverside building could become community asset — Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Tom Patterson Source:
Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) The onetime building of the Riverside Young Men's Christian Association, a Cultural Heritage Landmark designated as Italian Renaissance in style, is trying to develop an active community status. It faces University Avenue at Lemon Street. It has an auditorium, which combines earlier smaller rooms, available for conventions and other meetings. Its newest portion, the gymnasium built in 1951, has been decorated with murals designed by artist Sam Huang. Among its uses are programs called quincineras, a coming-of-age celebration for Hispanic girls. ...
Apr 18, 1996
It Happens // Or does it? When it comes to Landmark Education corporation, there's no meeting of the minds. — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steve Jackson Source:
Denver Westword News Walter Plywaski placed the blue yarmulke on his head. A Jew by ethnicity but an atheist by choice, he rarely wore the symbol of faith. But it seemed important now, as he stood near a mass burial site for Jews murdered at what had once been the Riederloh "punishment" camp in Germany. Somewhere beneath the stone markers, he believed, were the remains of the father he'd seen beaten to death for cursing an SS commandant in January 1945. Fifty years later, ...
Oct 13, 1995
Judge dismisses suit over firing — The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
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The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola dismissed the lawsuit Tuesday. The action came after Polozola adopted a report on the matter by U.S. Magistrate Stephen Riedlinger. [...]
Jul 19, 1994
Cults / New style, old problem
Apr 3, 1994
Inside the cults of mind control - — Sunday Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gary Tippet Source:
Sunday Age (Australia) Louise Samways has spent the past decade investigating the many mind-control techniques of Australia's cults, gurus and personal development courses. She is also familiar with their tactics to keep critics quiet. The brick that slammed through the psychologist's car windscreen recently was a reminder that there are other, older methods of persuasion. She was frightened: "I'd like to hope it was just schoolkids playing stupid games, but when these things come one on top of the other, I don't think I'm ...
Mar 6, 1988
Scientologists acquire Hollywood landmark — Los Angeles Times (California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ruth Ryon Source:
Los Angeles Times (California) Hedda Hopper, Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson and Cecil B. DeMille were all office tenants in a Hollywood landmark that sold a few days ago for about $5 million. The Guaranty Building, on the northeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Ivar Avenue, was built in 1923, and was designed by John C. Austin, who also designed the Griffith Park Observatory and Shrine Auditorium. The 12-story building, called "the first major high-rise built outside of downtown Los Angeles" in the Greater L. A. ...
Oct 3, 1985
Inkeeper appeals ruling to close landmark hotel — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
May 29, 1985
[Advertisement] Scientologists win landmark decision against government harassment — Hollywood Independent
Mar 6, 1985
Advertisement: Scientologists win landmark decision against government harassment — Los Angeles Times (California)
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