Editing Focus on the Family (section)

==Headquarters and size==
[[File:Focus on the Family Administration Building (Colorado Springs).jpg|thumb|The administration building is one of four on the headquarters campus.]]
The Focus on the Family headquarters is a four building, {{convert|47|acre|ha|adj=on}}<ref>Martin, Claire. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DP&p_theme=dp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF4570B45DA641&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "Fun is the focus Three-story slide gives kids a thrill"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025125343/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DP&p_theme=dp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAF4570B45DA641&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |date=October 25, 2012}} ''[[Denver Post]]''. April 23, 2000. F-07. Retrieved on September 17, 2010. "Focus on the Family's sprawling headquarters four buildings on 47 acres of land"</ref> complex located off of [[Interstate 25 in Colorado|Interstate 25]] in northern Colorado Springs, Colorado, with its own ZIP Code (80995).<ref name="Ott2">Ott, Christopher. "[http://www.salon.com/news/1998/07/09news2.html God's own ZIP Code] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040130060421/http://www.salon.com/news/1998/07/09news2.html |date=January 30, 2004}}" ''[[Salon (magazine)|Salon]]'', July 9, 1998. Retrieved on September 17, 2010.</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120713122637/http://family.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/family.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=14190&p_created=1093474484&p_sid=HCi_Igak&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD04NTAsODUwJnBfcHJvZHM9JnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9jcHgmcF9wYWdlPTE!&p_li=&p_topview=1 "How do I contact Focus on the Family?"]. Focus on the Family. Retrieved on September 17, 2010.</ref> The buildings consist of the Administration building, International building, Welcome Center and Operations building, and totals 526,070 square feet.<ref>Focus on the Family. [http://family.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9/~/what-is-the-square-footage-of-your-buildings%3F "What is the square footage of your buildings?"]. {{dead link|date=July 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Retrieved on October 18, 2012.</ref>

Focus on the Family's original headquarters were in [[Arcadia, California]] for the initial fourteen years following the time that James Dobson incorporated the company. The organization began with 500 square feet of office space and employed a single part-time secretary, according to the prior director of corporate affairs, Dan Wright. By 1984 Focus of the Family's Arcadia properties occupied 55,000 square feet across three buildings (though prior to a consolidation of their campus, they owned as many as seven individual buildings around the city) and employed 320 personnel.<ref name=":7" /> In 1991 Focus moved their headquarters to their current location in Colorado Springs<ref name=":1" /> with 1,200 employees.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} In 2002, the number of employees peaked at 1,400. By September 2011, after years of layoffs, they had 650 employees remaining.<ref>{{cite web |last=Draper |first= Electra|url=http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18912132 |title=Focus on the Family announces more layoffs |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105114207/http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18912132 |archive-date=January 5, 2013 |work=Denver Post |date=September 16, 2011 |access-date= October 19, 2012}}</ref> Christopher Ott of ''[[Salon (magazine)|Salon]]'' said in 1998 that the FOTF campus has "handsome new brick buildings, professional landscaping and even its own traffic signs" and that "The buildings and grounds are well-maintained and comfortable. If there is any ostentatious or corrupt influence here, it is nowhere in sight."<ref name="Ott2"/>

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