The Sale of the 360 Furman Street bldg also announced in the official site

by Roddy 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Roddy

  http://www.jw-media.org/newsroom/index.htm?content=/region/americas/usa/english/releases/events/usa_e040412.htm

  For Immediate Release
  April 12, 2004

  Watchtower announces sale of Furman Street building

  BROOKYN, N.Y.?Today the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., announced that they have reached an agreement to sell their nearly one million square foot shipping and distribution building located at 360 Furman Street to RAL Development Services LLC. The agreement with RAL allows Watchtower to remain as a tenant in the Furman Street building for one year, sufficient time for all the existing operations to be relocated to their other buildings in Brooklyn and upstate New York.

  Contact Jehovah's Witnesses' spokesmen:
  David A. Semonian, Office of Public Information, 718-560-5600
  Daniel Rice, Real Property Office, 845-744-1900

  Also, by permission: RAL Development Services, LLC, 212-748-8900
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  xjw_b12

  Geez. That's strange. No mention of the sale price!
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  dustyb

  hundreds of millions of dollars. i remember reading somewhere the exact estimate of what it was going to go for, but i have to find it again.....
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  Klaus Vollmer

  money does not stink
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  blondie

  A giant waterfront building owned by the Jehovah's Witnesses in Brooklyn Heights could soon go on the block - with an early estimated price tag of $120 million.

  http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/furman.htm
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  plmkrzy

  While the group - one of Brooklyn Heights' largest property owners - posted a press release on its Web site announcing the potential sale, the building is not formally on the market.
  

  Originally published on June 23, 2003

  and they can't give transportation to poor brothers and sisters in third world countries, instead they pat them on the heads for walking miles (dragging children along) to the meetings.
  

  Probably barefoot