Source: Los Angeles Times
On March 31, 2000, the Los Angeles Times published an article on the Jain Center of Southern California, whose renovation plans were approved by the Buena Park City Council in California. The revamped center will be a $5 million structure that will take 12 to 18 months to complete. It will serve the approximately 900 Jain families that live within a 7-mile radius of the temple and will include a library containing about 8,000 religious books and some manuscripts dating back 800 years, a temple, a children's room, and activity and study rooms. The former post office next store will be turned into offices and a parking lot across the street will supplement the underground parking of the center. At the center of the main entrance, surrounded by two curved staircases, will be a large replica of the pure white marble Palitana Temple in India, a 35-foot-high, 14-ton replica which was once on display at the 1904-05 World's Fair and was more recently owned by Howard Hughes.