The real estate empire grows ...

The rendering features a three-story temple with a center spire. The temple will be located east of Satterfield Drive and Butte Street in Pocatello in a new subdivision known as Crestview Estates – Division 2.

This will be the sixth temple in Idaho, a state with nearly half a million members of the Church. The temple was first announced in April 2017 by then Church President Thomas S. Monson.

Construction on the temple is expected to begin in 2019 and will take between two and three years to complete.


https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/artistic-rendering-released-pocatello-idaho-temple

I hope LD$ Inc builds many more of their (useless secret handshake palaces) temples, because as MORmON membership finally drops and more remaining MORmON members lose interest in going to the temple, and MORmON temples are used less and less, then those temples will be more financial dead weight, exhaustive drag and burden on LDS Inc resources, hastening the financial implosion of LDS Inc thieving via pretending to be a church. It would also be nice if the government started taxing LD$ Inc !!!

So, who is the real estate developer building the new Crestview Estates? TBM contractors building on church/business owned land?

Just assuming my ass off, but...you know...

It will look like this ...


http://www.salamandersociety.com/slamtoons/celestial/2010/100213payson_mormon_lds_temple.jpg

Dave, this isn’t too far off. In conversation with one of the temple architects, it was revealed that a mobile temple has been discussed and dismissed by the old farts.

>In conversation with one of the temple architects, it was revealed that a mobile temple has been discussed and dismissed by the old farts

The old farts are too slow again.
Exmormons had this idea over 10 years ago.

http://www.salamandersociety.com/temple/

Scroll halfway down the page to see the Winnebago McTemple

Now THAT is funny!

A lot of the homes actually look like that here,

In Las Vegas they have "trailer casinos." If a casino is closed for some reason and they want to keep the license, they bring around a trailer with some slot machines for a few days to keep it active.

https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/vegas-with-an-edge/trailer-casino/

Actually, this one looks more like a modified shipping container.

I still think that the "Temple Winnebago" concept is a great way for Churchco to get the most out of their temple program.

Get those all-white Winnebagos (with Moroni on the roof) into production. That's what needs to be done now! (Should've been done many years ago.)

Churchco can buy them from the manufacturer at a volume discount. Then it's just a matter of calling older couples to serve on special "Winnebago Couple Missions" which will require the couple to buy a Temple Winnebago at a small mark-up above standard Winnebago prices for the model in question...plus payment of a special tithing donation to cover the cost of including special Temple Winnebago features, such as the durable pearl-white paint with sparkle chips that are used throughout, including on the tire sidewalls and hubcaps, as well as for the extra cost required for the fold-out inflatable baptismal font and seclusion tent and the fold-out inflatable waiting room/playpen for kids.

Retiring Boomers will be clamoring to be called on a Temple Winnebago Couple Mission. I guarantee it!

Just imagine. You're on a Temple Winnebago Couple Mission cruising through the Rockies. As you head toward the Tetons on the open highway, cows to the left, pine trees to the right, you soon see a couple of cars in front of you with BYU stickers on them. They pull into a campground.

Hey, you just pull into the same campground! The lord has led you to them. You never know when someone with a temple recommend is going to want to do a quick endowment ceremony (you know, to make up for the fact that they were on a lake fishing the previous Sunday instead of looking for a local LDS chapel to attend).

How great it is that you've pulled in right behind them! Kind of a miracle when you think about it. There you are to "get er done!" so to speak.

You've got your recommend card scanner plugged in. You've got a trunk full of temple clothes that can be rented, if necessary. You even have an inflatable play room for the kids to play in while their parents do their temple duties. You then charge them the customary out-of-jurisdiction surcharge (payable by visa or master card) as they head out the door.

Then you kick back and enjoy a cool, refreshing brewski (root beer of course) and feel like you've done your part to make the world just a bit better...all while the majestic Teton peaks loom in scenic perfection in the distance as the perfect backdrop for a perfect day of temple activity.

But Churchco needs to move on this fast. The Boomers won't be around forever and gen x, the millenials and such won't be as inclined to know much about the greatness of Winnebagos or how they could be used for something other than drug-and-sex orgies in meth-riddled backwater towns.

And don't forget the manufacturing jobs that will be created.

It’s a shrewd investment subsidized by taxpayers. Land in Pocatello is just going to go up. Plus if you’re living in your own private Idaho, why not actually build temples in Idaho?

An ugly building designed to look big.

Just what Poky needs; another fertilizer plant.

Ho-hum.
At least it's not the kind of monstrosity they put along I-5 here in San Diego...

You mean the Kolob star gate?

F#ck me, time to move.

Gee. Maybe Draper Utah? At least it's better than that six spire A frame crap they built in the 80's. The Boise temple always was considered one of the ugliest buildings in the city when I lived there.

Pocatello should have at least a dozen MORmON temples, plus their own LD$ Inc owned and subsidized 5 billion dollar City Creek Center Replica Mall. Blackfoot, Idaho should have 6 MORmON temples. Idaho Falls should get 7 More MORmON temples. Rexburg should get 9 more MORmON temples. Saint Anthony should have 3 or 4 MORmON temples. Tuttle, Idaho should have a MORmON temple !!!
Temples are supposed to dot the land. LD$ Inc should build temples as many and as fast as possible .....until LDS Inc is completely BANKRUPT !!!!!

They would hit the law of diminishing returns by then. When I served in the Elder's Quorum Presidency the stake president did want every Elder to have a temple recommend. It's all about putting the pressure on the members to pay tithing is what it boils down to. Temples are like casinos. They are built to make money and give those who enter an illusion to believe in. As least with a casino there is a small chance you might leave with more than you came in with. Not the temple.

I know they're building it on a hill. It was a site chosen out of several selected because it overlooks the city. (Temple on a hill as in "light" on a hill kind of thing.)

When I was visiting Pocatello last week, for brother's funeral, I looked at a house for sale near where the temple will be built. It's a nice area, but it will dominate the scenery I'm sorry to say. It is a disincentive for me to want to live there. Though cousin would love me to move closer to live near her.

There's still a lot of Mormons there. They will love having a temple so close they won't need to drive to Idaho Falls anymore.

D@mn this is my home turf.

It’s ugly. All the new temples are so ugly and bland. Certainly not what I would choose if I was building what I believed to be a literal house of god. The local news has already said just the announcement of the temple has raised home prices in the neighborhood around where they’re building it. Personally, I’d be upset that such a big, ugly, windowless building was going up near my home (not that those McMansions up there are any better to look at themselves).



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They seem like they're already overpriced from what I could see.

One woman trying to sell her home in downtown Pokie told me her taxes are sky high, even though her property value is not.

I think price rises in these cases are not based on preferences of the locals. They're usually based on anticipation of retiring Mormon boomers who want to live close to a temple so that they can rack up brownie points in heaven doing tons of temple work for dead people (even though they've mostly run out of names of dead people and are quietly recycling names to keep the people thinking that there's actually some reason to keep going to the temple several times a month).

My cousin is pretty excited it's being built near where she lives. She is looking forward to being one of the senior volunteers in the temple, bless her heart. She is sweet as honey and apple pie. For her sake, I hope she gets some pleasure from doing that. She's had a very painful, difficult life most wouldn't know how to cope with.

They look like they are built out of LEGO's.

How about Lego people to go wit them?

https://www.google.com/search?q=lego+people&rlz=1CATAAA_enUS643US644&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwio0fPZidfdAhUCWqwKHX7kB0UQ_AUI3AMoAQ&biw=1366&bih=623#imgdii=S5AIq9I4oYExgM:&imgrc=sbRPtq2hobrzGM:

Perfect!

There's even bald ones that curiously resemble Nelson.

When the time comes...this will make a perfect addition to the Hornblower Spa & Resort chains collection of luxury spa/resort properties.

The architecture of the building proper is quite reminiscent of the early 20th century designs used for temples like the Cardston and Laie temples. But the ornamental center of the Pocatello (Poke a fello) version is much more phallic. Basically, they just used the Cardston/Laie template and then jammed a huge phallic tower on it. (I wonder why they opted out of using the phallic steeple/tower in those early 20th century designs. Maybe they felt deflated after the then-recent demise of polygamy. Who knows?)