by usualusername1 67 Replies latest jw friends
The above-mentioned listing has disappeared, the Addington Residents' Association announced that "it looks like it [the property] may have been sold now" (source, p. 5), and I think I know who is the purchaser and what is the sale price:
https://www.hyderi.org.uk/event/saturday-2nd-night-mahe-ramadhan-sgm-notice/
https://twitter.com/HyderiCentre/status/1256969168265580544
jehovah must be turning in his grave.
They got £4.5 million for it.
Built with volunteer labour and flogged to Islam to compensate victims of JW pedophiles.
If the thousands of JWs who laboured to realise this dream in the 80s had only known.
stan, just noticed you proved to be a kind of prophet.
The story is still not over. The five Halls complex has been sold for either £3.5 million or £4.5 million to a Shia Muslim group which is a part of tiny (less than 150,000 members worldwide) Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri community. It will be re-developed into a multipurpose complex.
And now, the remaining part of the property, namely 5 residential dwellings, is put for sale:
https://www.each.co.uk/f/124602/p/200916123356.pdf
"Unconditional offers in excess of £1,575,000 are invited."
"Potential also appears to exist to create a large meeting hall / place of [false] worship."
Background: the place was purchased in 1987, and for decades it has been "the main centre for Jehovah's Witnesses in the Croydon area." In 1990s and 2000s, the organization was planning to build a residential care home for up to 39 persons there but those plans have eventually been abandoned.
The care home plans being abandoned tells it
Update: the same Shia group is going to purchase the second Pioneer Place property for £1,450,000, with the combined sale price of the complex totalling £5,950,000.
https://www.hyderi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SGM-16th-February.pdf
The sale of the remaining Pioneer Place properties is confirmed: https://www.acorngroup.co.uk/commercial/property-sales/leisure-institution-other-for-sale-in-5-pioneer-place-croydon-surrey/50189
Read also: Case Study for sale in Croydon
