Send them to Tehran to join the the other mullahs
Watchtower Moving its Headquarters from USA?
by Amazing 21 Replies latest jw friends
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palmtree67
"What do they need Brooklyn for?"
Do you have any idea how much that property is worth these days......
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cabasilas
So, selling the Brooklyn properties would fund the Organization for many years...
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504deist
They should be in the deep south by a swamp
don't send them down here. actually, maybe that would be a good idea. us cajun boys can take care of them once and for all. iiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeee
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Albert Einstein
Amazing, dont scare me... I believe Ramapo still is the location for new US Bethel....?
http://www.rickross.com/reference/jw/jw380.html
Ramapo views Jehovah's Witnesses development plan
The Journal News, New York/March 26, 2009
By James Walsh
Rampo - The Jehovah's Witnesses are planning an administration and residential complex off Silver Mine Road where about 850 people would live and work.
The 248-acre site was intended to become an active-senior development, but the builder, Lorterdan Properties at Ramapo, sold the site in February to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York. Advertisement
A deed filed at the Rockland County Clerk's Office on Feb. 13 showed that the society paid $11.5 million.
The society plans to move many of its administrative offices from Brooklyn, where it has overseen its worldwide operations for 100 years.
As proposed, the plan would disturb about 50 percent less of the property than Lorterdan intended, and would have less of an impact on traffic because residents would work there, Richard Devine, a Watchtower spokes-man, said yesterday.
The relocation would place the volunteer workers closer to the organization's printing operations in Ulster County.
"And it's not too far from the airports," Devine said, "and our staff does travel a lot."
The potential of a religious organization on the site worried Theresa Davis, who lives opposite the property on Sterling Mine Road.
"Is this going to be tax exempt?" Davis asked. "What else can Rockland County afford? How many organizations can we afford to have in Rockland County?"
Ramapo Assessor Scott Shedler said Watchtower had applied for a religious-use exemption, but no decision had been made.
Davis also was concerned about the project's visual impact, specifically wanting buffers to shield it from Silver Mine Road.
"When I bought my house, the property was zoned for residential housing," Davis said. "It's not fair to people living in the area to change it."
Devine said the Watchtower plan reduced development of sloped areas of the property, an issue of environmentalists wanting to preserve an unblemished ridgeline.
As proposed, no school-age children would live there, and Watchtower was prepared to donate to the fire district to pay for equipment purchases.
Ramapo's planning consultants, Frederick P. Clark Associates of Rye, found in part that the absence of school-age children made the impact similar to Lorterdan's plan.
In a report to the town this month, the consultants also stated that while the Watchtower plan would have less of an environmental impact by halving the disturbed area, "the intensity of development on the disturbed area is increased."
Instead of housing on 292 lots, town records showed that Watchtower's plan included an office and worship building, a service building with a central kitchen, dining room, laundry, storage and infirmary, and residential buildings.
Two maintenance shops are proposed.
Lorterdan had owned the property since 2002, and in 2005 it received the zoning for the senior development.
Watchtower is seeking an amendment to the zoning law to permit construction of a "monastery" subject to a permit from the Town Board.
As defined in the proposed amendment, a monastery would be a "planned development of buildings for integrated living, working and worshiping arrangements." Schools would not be included.
Before the Town Board rules, it likely will seek a recommendation from the Planning Board, said Alan Simon, the town's planning and zoning administrator.
A public hearing will be held by the Planning Board before it makes its recommendation.
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Finally-Free
Send them to the Canadian Arctic. Our bears need sustenance.
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OnTheWayOut
Someone unconfuse my understanding:
I thought they wanted to move to Ramapo but something soured the deal.
Either the town decided not to allow their zoning/building plans in Ramapo or
The WTS decided that they needed to print less in the USA because of healthcare/workers compensation costs.I thought the Canada move was sudden around this past April/May as if things suddenly developed when previous plans failed.
I thought with this new plan, Ramapo was dead-in-the-water. Brooklyn would be sold off no matter what and the Wallkill/Patterson compounds would be kept.
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I quit!
I don't think Canada wants them there.
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Hope4Others
It would be a cost to Canada.....they automatically get free health care if they start moving people up here...and a more burden on the system
Here at Wallkill and the Global Printery’s are going to Double Shift
work. (No brothers or sister working with the new “work arrangement”
will have to miss meetings)this was from blondies link......why it it they always use this line when all they really want to do is cut costs....
