This was also where my thinking was directed…

“…gaudy gold crap and crimson curtains – “.

Yep, that’s the Little Plug Ugly’s taste, alright.

If they gave up on the Shrine in LA they might be able to hide their contraction with a switch to LRH Hall, if they then then expected members to fly from other places to Clearwater every year. They can apparently still fill Eckerd Hall in Clearwater – though gone are the days when they needed overflow tents – which has a capacity of about 1,000 less than their proposed hall, and they could probably make up the difference with out-of-towners.

They could then claim it as a big “win” to fill the new facility, even though it is actually about 3,000 less than the Shrine, and it would buy them a few more years before the shrinkage of their events had to be reckoned with.

Exactly, that’s the first thing I thought: I’ve been to some very nice venues both here in the US and in Europe – that rendering looks like a Kindergarten classroom designed it.

And more technically, that “Front of House” (where the mixing board is, in the middle of the seating) is a complete joke.

But, in true Miscavige style, there’s plenty of gaudy gold crap and crimson curtains – the surface trappings of what He no doubt perceives to be “luxurious.”

And only 3,600 seats lol

“based on Scientology’s history of drawn-out project and construction debacles.”

DM hasn’t figured out that cycle of action. He gets from start to change, then keeps cycling around:
change, change, change, change — until someone or something slaps him into getting around to the stop part.

Weather Watcher, make that APOSTATE bigots and SPs, and you’ve nailed the reason that Dwarfenführer created the IAS (I am Screwed”) slush fund.

“Perhaps a new “central” central files center in the desert?”

Hey! That’s not entirely a bad idea! They’ve already started consolidating CFs, AFAICT, with computer-linked data access, from the strange orgs who have called me in the last couple-three years. NY & FLOG(where I should be in CF), DC & AOLA, (where I shouldn’t), plus who-knows-how-many- times we didn’t pick up the phone; ya’ gotta love caller ID.

Mary Kahn:
“The church of deceit and lies.”

And the most basic deceit/lie is the “church” part. Never was, can’t be.