Posted on 05/23/2022 5:29:37 AM PDT by blam
The creator of Rockstar Energy Drink, billionaire Russell Weiner, purchased the most expensive house in Utah history that looks like a fortress.
According to WSJ, sitting on 5 acres nestled in a mountainous region in Park City, Utah, the 17,500 square feet mansion with six bedrooms cost a whopping $39.6 million.
In December, the home was listed for $42 million and went under contract in April. Weiner’s purchase appears to be politically motivated. He said Utah is “a pro-family and pro-business state” and expects it to “keep attracting people, especially as people run from high tax states.”
Weiner added: “Real-estate values will only continue to rise in Utah because of demand.”
He launched Rockstar energy drinks in 2001 and has gained a .3% market share of the US non-alcoholic beverage market. Weiner’s politically motivated move comes as no surprise, considering he’s the son of former conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage.
The mansion’s amenities include an indoor/outdoor pool, bowling alley, indoor sports court, golf simulator, and movie theater.
Beating former chief executive of Nikola Motors Trevor Milton’s $32.5 million ranch, Weiner now has bragging rights to the most expensive house in the state.
What makes Weiner’s fortress-style mansion unique is the watchtower. Preparing for the apocalypse much?
That is not a fortress, it’s a death trap.
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Yeah, all those unprotected windows will surely keep all the food rioters out.
He’s 80. Quit doing the show last year. Does a podcast a couple times a week.
“Thats an awful lot of windows to be called a fortress!”
Yep, and a lot of space to keep warm in the winter.
They knew there was silver in the area, but had no idea as to how much and Brigham Young didn't want a society of miners with all that entailed, single men, loose morals and massive wealth.
So the mineral rights were sold for much less than their true value to William Randolph Hearst who proceeded to build a massive fortune. As the silver was depleted in the late 1940s, massive tunnels remained. Some of them were converted to water pipes to move the massive melting snowfalls to the dry (18" average rainfall) Utah Valley downhill. It was then sparely populated, but became fruit orchards for the next 40 years or so before converting to a little Silicone Valley of sorts with the young population and cheap well educated labour.
Other tunnels were enlarged and converted into ski lifts as the Park City area became a world class ski resort and haven for the ultrarich fleeing Californistan. Untold other tunnels remain and are probably beneath some of these multimillion dollar mansions by design.
Love the watch tower:-)
Agree - that was the first thing I thought when I saw the picture.
My family are coinsures of Rockstar energy drinks. Really good thirst quenchers. Super Sour Green Apple flavor is awesome.
God bless Michael Savage and his family.
First fortress I’ve seen made of glass.
And he destroyed Jerusalem, along with all of the genealogical records and the temple.
Thus it will be with any such "bunkers" if the survivalist's dreams come true. Any such bunker will be descended upon by endless numbers of kamikaze survivors.
Unless the bunker is on an island, somewhere, that has yet to be mapped?
Unless all of that glass is bullet-proof...that ain’t a fortress.
Courtesy of Scotty.
Never hire a quasi modo if you can get an authentic modo one instead.
Actually, I was referring to the defense of Jerusalem against the Muslims forces of Saladin as portrayed in the Ridley Scott film “Kingdom of Heaven”.
Way too much glass for survival bunker but its impressive.
the climate, that big and with that much glass, he better have a small reactor to power the electric...
casue in a hulldown situation, they’ll need one
He’s only a ‘podcaster’ now.
Boiling oil is the ticket! Once you douse them, you can drop a torch in it, and set them on fire, too!
Darned nice place, but if he can’t defend scumbags coming thru all that glass, he doesn’t own it. Plus, it’ll cost $1-2 million to furnish it.
Fortresses are not made of all-glass walls on four sides. The turret is simply an architectural extension for an isolated wrap-around feel of the surrounding woods.
And yes, real estate prices in UT are ascending into the stratosphere. It’s like a daily paycheck if you own a home debt free.
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