Kudos to developer Larry Hall for finding an inventive way to sell $3M luxury condos he built in a stretch of desert near Concordia, Kansas. His trick? Siting them in decommissioned missile silos strong enough to survive a nuclear attack.
As the Wall Street Journalreports, Hall has not only done enough prep work for doomsday-minded Americans with money to burn—outfitting the facility with a hydroponic vegetable garden, “sophisticated water and air-treatment facilities, state-of-the-art computer network technology and several alternate power generation capabilities”—but he knows his clients will want to keep up a certain standard of living should the world become a blasted radioactive hellscape. Which is why the underground luxury condo has a 17-seat movie theater, a swimming pool, a dog park, and a gym. It even has its own little jail!
Cabin fever getting to you? Each of the units comes with “windows,” i.e., video screens that can show a few outdoor scenes reminiscent of a Windows background image, so occupants can lose themselves in pastoral scenes while the world outside burns.
Hall completed construction on his first luxury bunker in 2012. All seven of the 1,820-square-foot floors have been sold—the Journal has a nifty diagram of a cross-section of the facility—four of them to the executive of a tobacco-product firm, who paid $12M in cash. A Florida nightclub owner who bought a full-floor unit in a second compound that’s currently under construction maintains that he is not at all the “tinfoil hat-wearing” type. Tinfoil being the poor man’s response to irrational fears.
Hall is currently considering silos in Texas and elsewhere for additional developments. So business is booming! Here’s a look inside one of the completed complexes, which owners are free to live in full-time while they wait for the worst.
