Televangelist wants $125M Christian resort in San Diego
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A televangelist wants to build a Christian-themed resort in San Diego that includes fancy timeshare suites, a Biblical museum, high-tech attractions and a 20-foot-high replica of Jerusalem's wailing wall.
The San Diego Union-Tribune (http://bit.ly/1OIe3Dn ) says Morris Cerullo is planning the $125 million project on the site of a foreclosed Mission Valley hotel he bought more than four years ago.
The project would include 127 suites, a spa and other amenities along with Cerullo's new ministry headquarters, a Biblical museum housing Judeo-Christian artifacts, hologram-filled catacombs and a theater offering an immersive through-the-Bible movie experience — including actual mist during the parting of the Red Sea.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Cerullo's ministry hopes to draw up to 400,000 annual visitors. The project still needs City Council approval but the ministry hopes to break ground this year.