For Sale: Renovated Luxury Condo; Can Survive Nuclear Attack

Luxury Condos Built for Doomsday

For Sale: Renovated Luxury Condo; Can Survive Nuclear Attack (Wall Street Journal, Nov 9, 2014):

Affluent buyers worried about doomsday are snapping up well-appointed bunkers built in a former missile silo.

The so-called Survival Condo complex boasts full and half-floor units that cost $1.5 million to $3 million each. The building can accommodate up to 75 people, and buyers include doctors, scientists and entrepreneurs, says developer Larry Hall.

Mr. Hall, who lives in a Denver suburb, bought his first missile-silo site in Kansas in 2008 and completed construction in December 2012. A year later, he says, the development had sold out. Work on the second security compound—the one where Mr. Allen bought a unit—is under way, and Mr. Hall says he is considering additional sites in Texas and elsewhere.

As former nuclear missile sites built under the supervision of the Army Corps of Engineers, the structures were originally designed to withstand a direct hit by a nuclear bomb. At ground level, they can be sealed up by two armored doors weighing 16,000 pounds each. Mr. Hall added sophisticated water and air-treatment facilities, state-of-the-art computer network technology and several alternate power generation capabilities.

The projects tap into an undercurrent of angst among some affluent folks that has persisted since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The global financial crisis and now the possible dangers posed by the Ebola virus and the rise of Islamic State have fueled their safety concerns.

The condos, his company claims, can make it possible to lead an uninterrupted life of luxury underground. In addition to the standard perks—which also include a spa, dog park, fitness center and medical facilities—the complex has enough emergency food on hand to last for up to five years. There’s also a holding cell for unruly occupants.

Individual units have 9-foot ceilings. lighting mimics sunlight as much as possible. In place of windows, there are video screens that can exhibit a resident’s choice of scenery, from landscapes to urban skylines.

2 thoughts on “For Sale: Renovated Luxury Condo; Can Survive Nuclear Attack”

  1. So, as the horrors from Fukushima get worse, greedy guts can move in there. It would serve them right to be the only ones left in a post nuclear world………can’t go outside, just have other greedy idiots to rely upon for social interaction.
    What beautiful justice……….the greedy bastards deserve to live after all else is dead.

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  2. The confines of such a post nuclear oasis could well become an agoraphobics wet dream as opposed to another’s nightmare ? We as individuals should not be so presumptuous as to believe that anyone should be labeled mentally fit simply because of their occupation or status , For such affluent clientele this five star doomsday spa could be a ruse to weed out the vagrants from park place lol ? Regardless America is a business more than a country so buying your survival should come as no surprise to the capitalist from condo 1408 and once Beverly Hills meets the Road Warrior paper money might have become tinder for the fire to grow and there may be no way to buy your way out of a firefight or cannibalism ? So guess who might be coming to dinner ? Grazi

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