TalleyWhacker, do you recall the target figure at that time?
I too was a hot prospect for SP and Charmaine Rodgers was on the phone to me every week, I remember the target going up every month or so. When I asked why I was told they needed to build a separate hall for events and then they needed an air conditioner building, I think I remember the first target being $60 mill, could that be the number you heard?
Also, what would be a fair cost to build that building?
I'm sure that what they spent to build it could be retrieved through "Freedom of Information" legislation if any one is up for it.
Seems that this very subject is being taken up by Rebel008 on www.leavingscientology.wordpress.com
At that time, Scientology was in a major slump. Stats had been declining since 1991. Orgs were shrinking. We were thanked for our analysis, and it was promptly buried. No one wanted to face the truth: filling the Superpower building was an impossibility, if one really looked at raw figures.
What does Tommy Davis mean about "as soon as we get the go-ahead from the city, we'll begin." Would you wait until after you've spent 40 million on the project before getting an approval from the city?
The announcement (in the 80-page Freedom Magazine footbullet) that interior construction was underway for the Superpower building reminded me of a marketing research project we did regarding the Superpower building. As many people know, I was part of the Central Marketing Unit (CMU) at the Int Base for 15 years.
In 1998, construction had started on the Superpower building. We were asked, in Marketing, to do a research project to work out what it would take to fill that building with students and pcs.
The building, of course, is huge. Wikipedia cites the square footage at 170,000. The Church, in the recent Freedom Magazine, claims 377,000 square feet. From my own observation, it’s closer to the Wikipedia figure, but we know how the Church inflates any statistic, even square footage. According to the Freedom Magazine, there will be 22 course rooms seating 1,800 students, and 300 auditing rooms serving 1,200 preclears at any time.
So what would it take to fill this building? [...]
LRH was blood brother to the Blackfoot.
Has this been confirmed with anyone (other than LRH)?? Or just another piece of BS? Even if it were true, the Blackfoot Indians would probably deny it at this point if they could.
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LRH was blood brother to the Blackfoot.[/QUOTE]
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Has this been confirmed with anyone (other than LRH)?? Or just another piece of BS? Even if it were true, the Blackfoot Indians would probably deny it at this point if they could.
That was a transcriptionist error. Original source material reads:
"LRH was blood brother to the black (ops) foot bullet."