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I doubt the airport noise is really a factor. They built that thing while there were take-offs going right overhead and put additional insulation in the roof and walls to compensate.

I've not yet discovered anything substantial on this particular rumor, but I do note that it does not look like the place we built all those years ago. I also hear that it is mostly unused since much of the LSM work has been moved back to Anaheim or elsewhere, there are no more trainings there, and the local assembly does not begin to need the huge meeting space. Some have also suggested that the extreme volatility of the soil in the area has exceeded the measures taken to over come it and there are foundation problems. In Irving this is a distinct possibility.

I would not be surprised that it is either for sale or they were trying to get a buy-out by the airport. I find any complaint about noise interesting since it was the very proximity to the airport that drew them to it in the first place and they had ample data concerning potential noise before they bought the land.

If there really are the foundation problems I mentioned, then its actual value may be not much more than the land since it could be cheaper to simply bulldoze it and rebuild than fix it. If that is true, it is a shame.

It is interesting that you aren't sure who would be trying to sell it. I'm not sure whose property it is either. It was "sold" to us as a meeting hall, a training center, a publishing location, and an apartment for Lee. That really muddies the issue.