Scientology's ABQ building is for sale?

On my way down San Pedro, I saw a For Sale sign on the side of the Scino building. I did some research on the faithful intarwebz and came up with the following from NM business weekly:

Scientologists eye a move to Downtown (Dec 2007)

Proposed Downtown Scientology Site on Hold (Jan 2008)

I know the sign wasn't there a week ago (although the yellow van was). Their windows are still covered in ads and posters and there are cars in the parking lot. Did I hallucinate? You can see it if you're going on San Pedro towards Lomas.

I can't seem to find anything about that past the jan 11 article, but if they are selling the old building I guess they bought a new one? If they did get the downtown property, that means there are a lot of angry downtown business owners and that could be something to tap into. I'm going to E-mail the writer of the articles to see if he has any updates on all this.

Also, lol:

Opponents of the church's plan, including Nathan Fox, an Albuquerque psychotherapist and head of the Downtown Neighborhood Association,

Welcome to Albuquerque! The new Clearwater! It'll happen watch....

There was supposed to be some sort of a meeting in regards to the purchase, but I haven't been able to find anything on it.

I found the listing of the property for sale after much squinting at the extremely tiny sign on the side with unreadable font when driving past at 35 MPH.

http://acrealty.catylist.com/jsp/listings/listing_overview.jsp?listingID=1669755

Hmm...

I doubt that $cientology owns the building. I was on lines there for several years and they never had the money to buy a building. The article you referred to mentioned a Sanford Block. I am going to try to find out who he is. He is probably someone RTC sent down to help them purchase the Gizmo building. I am sure RTC is funding it. I will let you know what I can find out.