Posted on 11/23/2010 6:04:23 PM PST by dynachrome
20th Century Castles, LLC offers several decommissioned missile base properties. We have sold 47 of these sites as of January 2009 and we are proud to offer these below. If you are interested in learning more, we offer site-specific video tours of most of the properties we offer. A video tour is worth 10,000 words and are a prerequisite to an onsite inspection. If you are serious about any of these properties, select your favorite, purchase its video and after you have watched it, feel free to contact Ed Peden at: info@missilebases.com or ph. 785-256-6029.
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I hear the Atlas E type bases are the best. The Atlas E’s were stored horizontally and their bases have a giant “sarcophagus” instead of a useless silo.
If I bought a site I’d rename it ‘Fort Awesome’.
Wow, I’d love one of those, but unless they decide to do a ‘lottery’ with tickets 200 or less, there’s no way I’d have a chance :(
Imagine this. For the money spent each day on Obama’s India trip, you could have bought 200 of these missile silos.... PER DAY.
I wish you a warm,safe, and memorable Thanks Giving Holiday!!!
One more thing on my Christmas wish list.
This Atlas F site in the Adironback Park is already under development by Australian owner, seeking free-spirited, compatible partner/investor for further development into a unique (M.A.S.H. theme) entertainment venue suitable for dance parties and other profitable commercial uses. Detailed develpment plans with cost and profit analysis are available for examination.
What do you do with it?
Looks like most buyers turn them into homes. The one in Valley Falls, KS. looks like an interesting project. If I had the money. Maybe I can get some tips from Bernie Madoff.
I used to work for a juvenile detention facility that was once a former NIKE missile base from the 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s... It had underground facilities and everything... extremely awesome.
Beware of perchlorate contamination though-—under CERCLA anyone who buys such property with said contamination automatically becomes a potentially liable party for clean-up costs, courtesy of the EPA.
Another absolutely unconstitutional power of the EPA. This goes against all precedent in the law prior to EPA. The idea that you are responsible for what someone else did simply because you bought some property is insane.
That’s correct. I used to spend hours (ahem) “exploring” these sites, and they are rather awesome. The Atlas skin was too thin to be self-supporting so the ground support equipment included, in addition to all the fuel and oxidizer pumping and storage apparatus, nitrogen pressurization to make the thing stiff enough that it could be raised into firing position. The top of the site was made like a roll-top so it could be moved out of the way. The crew quarters and LCF are probably bigger than an average house and the rest of the facility makes like a 20-car garage.
And, under the heading of “UN-reasonably priced” - but very cool:
http://www.earth-house.com/html/atlas_e_silo.html
Properties For Sale (old missile bases) “Missiles not included”
So they bought these sites on the cheap from the government and want us to buy them for a thousand percent markup with not improvements.
Right.
not = no
whatever
Thanks. Warm wishes to everyone this Thanks Giving Holiday!
Cheers!
Heh, hadn’t thought of that.
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