A change.org petition addressed to President Barack Obama and titled “Replace Church of Scientology with HEB on Guadalupe Street” was started by UT sophomore electrical engineering student Abhishek Deb on Tuesday. Deb said on his Facebook page that he wrote the petition for a government class.

The petition reads, “The Church of Scientology takes up prime real estate on Guadalupe Street that could better service the local community and UT students by replacing it with a HEB.”

The Church of Scientology of Texas has been at Guadalupe and West 22nd streets since 1979, according to Cathy Norman, the church’s director of special affairs. And they have no intentions of moving.

“We actually have plans to do a multi-million dollar renovation to the building because we’re running out of space,” Norman said. “We have students and other people who are members that come from all over Central Texas, and we’re not planning on leaving.”

Deb said the petition was meant to be satirical, and he didn’t think it would go viral.

“It was addressed to President Barack Obama, who obviously has no power over the situation, and it isn’t a viable solution to uproot an institution like the church,” he said. “And the really crudely drawn Photoshop picture on the petition was meant to show that it was being satirical. It’s interesting to see how it took off.”

As of 6 p.m., the petition has 973 supporters, 27 away from its intended reach of 1,000 supporters and well surpassing his government class’s requirement of 20 signatures. Most of the commenters on the petition are in favor of an H-E-B.

“This is the most amazing idea ever, and offers UT students a closer grocery store & healthier options without the hassle of riding the bus,” one comment reads.

Another comment criticized the church and instead praised H-E-B’s hummus selection: “Scientology is a predatory scam. HEB has a huge selection of hummus.”

H-E-B recently announced new stores in in Hutto and in North Texas.