Recent IAS mag mentions a couple called the Duggans. Apparently they've gotten the Meretorious Humanitarian Platinum Gold award from DM the past couple of years, instead of his BFF Tom Cruise.
The article mentioned a list of Ideal Org properties the Duggans funded, San Diego being one of them.
The parcel number no longer comes up in the La Mesa Tax Assessor page; they used to owe over $100,000 in taxes. For a while they were just paying off the penalties for late payment.
I went by the Ideal Org property the other day. The RV is not out back any more, so the chimney sweep sci who was living there is no longer squatting behind the buildings.
The property was mowed before the rainy season, so there's a great crop of grasses and weeds just sprouting. We saw kids on BMX bikes on the property, and the back fence still has gaps in it where trespassers have ripped the fence from the posts.
One of our anon cell used to be a structural engineer there when it was Coleman College. There is a 500 ft. wooden beam supporting the roof of the main building. It has been repaired several times. Also, one of the side buildings; the cement pad was poured incorrectly and runoff from the hill is undermining it.
One resident of the neighborhood told us that the 9" sewer pipe that serves the homes uphill from the idle org runs through the site and one condition of purchase was that the cult has to replace that pipe before any renovations may be undertaken.
The latest plan seems to be razing the buildings to put up a "mission style campus." The picture is clearly three separate mission style buildings copypasta'ed onto one picture. It has no thematic coherence and looks just like what it is; clipart assembled without much care or thought.
The Duggans may have enabled the SD org to purchase this $9 million property, but they still have to maintain it. Last year, we donned our masks and went through the neighborhood on Halloween, distributing fliers that listed the various city entities they can complain to about weed abatement, graffiti, weirdos living on the property, and other complaints.
I don't think they'll ever sell the downtown org. I think they'll lose the Ideal Org property first.
