All the county had to do to get the money was to break ground onMoss Park Road by June 1997 and finish the work by December 1998.But nobody bothered to check the calendar. The deadlines came andwent.

The goof surfaced when county commissioners noticed they had avote coming up next week on the project's expansion plans. Besidesits 300,000-sf headquarters building, the relocated Californiareligious organization plans to build 500 hotel rooms; 2,700multifamily and single-family units; at least 100,000 sf of retail;and a new headquarters building for another religious group,Wycliffe Bible Translators.

Campus Crusade for Christ donated right-of-way for the Moss ParkRoad expansion and agreed to pay for part of the construction. Inexchange, the county would give the organization impact fees crediton all new buildings.

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