Scientollywood

A glimpse of the church's property holdings in LA

Pasadena Weekly/August 1, 2005
By Joe Piasecki

These days you can't turn a corner in Hollywood without bumping into a scientologist.

The same, it seems, is true for property owned by the Church of Scientology.

The Weekly has connected ownership of more than a dozen properties in Hollywood to the Church, thanks to some help from LA County Assessor's Office Press Deputy Robert Knowles.

An exhaustive search would be difficult to conduct, since many of the properties associated with the church are held under names other than the church, namely a company called Building Management Services (BMS).

BMS properties include the Scientology Celebrity Center at 5930 Franklin Ave., the L. Ron Hubbard Museum and corporate offices at 6331 Hollywood Blvd. and the Scientology Testing Center at 6724 Hollywood Blvd.

Other BMS properties include 4734, 4820, 4833 and 5165 Fountain Ave.; 1326 N. Berendo St.; 1339 N. Catalina Ave.; 1715 Ivar Ave. and 1827 N. Bronson Ave.

Also, according to Assessor's Office records, the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International owns 1825 and 1830 N. Bronson Ave.

The massive scientology property at the mailing address 4810 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood could not be located in the database.

The Church of Scientology owns at least one piece of vacant property, but county databases do not identify addresses for vacant land.