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[CombJelly]

"but have we ever heard what actually came of it?"

Not in any detail. But with the additional metal layers and the rumored extra steps that SOI takes, they may have had to add a lot of additional equipment, hence the need for more floorspace.

Or maybe, as I suggested once, they needed the extra space to investigate the technology taken from a crashed UFO...