Once again the Saint Petersburg Times trolls Scientology and their center of the universe in nearby Clearwater.Giant ‘Super Power’ building in Clearwater takes a pause, yet millions keep flowing in
By Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, Times Staff Writers
In Print: Monday, November 21, 2011
The seven-story Super Power building, also known as the Flag Building, sits on a full city block across the street from the taller Fort Harrison Hotel. In the foreground is the church’s power plant (L-shaped orange roof). It will heat and cool Super Power. Next to it is the church’s parking garage, both styled in the Mediterranean Revival architecture of the other church buildings. Scientology plans to build a seven-story, 3,500-seat auditorium on property it owns south of Super Power.
Maybe they’re out of money.
That speculation — irresistible to many Scientology watchers in Clearwater — never died after the church suddenly stopped construction on its massive, downtown “Super Power” building.
The church had spent five years and $45 million erecting the shell of the seven-story colossus that covers an entire city block. But in 2003 it shifted the project into idle, offering little explanation.