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Nearly bare bunker is looking for a buyer
Charlotte Observer ^ | Aug. 26, 2003 | HOWIE PAUL HARTNETT

Posted on 08/26/2003 9:31:42 AM PDT by Between the Lines

STANFIELD - Down Love Chapel Road, across from a field of soybeans and corn, lies a little-known footnote to the Cold War.

It's not much to look at from the surface -- two small buildings in front of a 250-foot tower.

But below the weed-covered veneer is a multilevel, nuclear attack- proof bunker built in the early '60s for commercial as well as top- secret government use.

Military jets and Air Force One used to relay communications through the 80,000-square-foot facility -- roughly the size of a Home Depot. AT&T constructed eight such bunkers during the Cold War to ensure vital communications would survive disasters. The Stanfield site was the largest, built at a cost of more than $7 million.

Now the decommissioned mass of concrete, situated on 11 acres about 30 miles east of uptown Charlotte in rural Stanly County, can be yours for the low, low price of $1.5 million.

American Tower officials had wanted to trade the facility to the state for the right to put towers anywhere on state property.

But when negotiations began to stall a few months ago, the company started thinking about who else might be interested in a large underground facility.

The list of potential buyers was enough to prompt Mike Flint, the company's Carolinas general manager, to slowly begin soliciting bidders. A small ad appeared in The Observer over the weekend and in Monday's business section.

So far, only one person has contacted Flint, but he hopes other qualified suitors will follow.

"I thought a bank could use it," Flint said Monday. "It could be an archive for a number of things."

It also could be a paint ball arena. Or a survivalist's dream. Or a trendy nightclub -- think "The Bomb Shelter."

The potential is nearly limitless. When AT&T moved its operations out of the facility in 1991, it took most of the communications equipment housed on the two main levels. The result is a lot of open space that can be configured almost any way you want.

And once you're in, you can stay in for a long time. The structure was designed to accommodate 90 people for 90 days, said former AT&T employee Dexter McIntyre, who grew up near the bunker.

The facility runs on commercial power, but if that were knocked out, two jet turbine engines would supply 750 kilowatts apiece. By comparison, the average house runs on 15 to 20 kilowatts, said Michael Southworth, who manages American Tower's 180 sites in Western North Carolina.

A 300,000-gallon fuel tank served the facility. The engines used about 30 gallons an hour, but the tank never ran dry, McIntyre said. Employees actually pumped out fuel from the '60s when the bunker closed.

Water for the facility was held in a 100,000-gallon tank supplied by three wells beneath the main structure. There is a separate sewage system and trash incinerator.

Air came through three vents and was circulated using several blowers the size of sedans.

Much of the concrete walls are bare, but the offices include such '70s design staples as beige wallpaper and wood paneling. The sinks and toilets in the housing area are made of steel.

The cots and refrigerators are gone, but little reminders of the workers who staffed the facility 24 hours a day remain.

The engine room still has maintenance schedules. One room has a calendar from 1990. Many corners still have floor plans and evacuation routes to the facility's two exits.

There are three 15-ton doors separating the underground from the surface. Two are at the main entrance. The other is by the back door.

Near that exit used to be an office that only employees with top- secret clearance could enter.

McIntyre was one of those special few. Among his jobs was handling Air Force One's communications while it was in the region's airspace.

Back before satellites and other high-tech systems, the president's airborne communications were funneled through secured bases. When the plane left one base's reach, another would pick it up.

McIntyre was at his station the day President Nixon resigned and left Washington.

American Tower officials had no idea of the facility's history when they acquired it.

"If this is what they had then," Southworth said, "what do they have today?"

About the Bunker

Completed in 1967, the 80,000 square-foot structure operated normally with a crew of 30. But it could house 90 people for 90 days in the event of a nuclear attack. A radiation detector and percussion sensors are scattered around the facility.


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1 posted on 08/26/2003 9:31:45 AM PDT by Between the Lines
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To: Between the Lines
Cooooooool.
2 posted on 08/26/2003 9:34:03 AM PDT by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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To: Between the Lines; hchutch
This is an old "ground entry point" used for providing an input into terrestrial communications lines from certain command and control aircraft (Air Force One, Nightwatch, and Looking Glass/PACCS).
3 posted on 08/26/2003 9:35:35 AM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)
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To: Between the Lines
I WANT it!!! That would be a seriously COOL house!
4 posted on 08/26/2003 9:37:17 AM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: Poohbah
Should be listed on eBay. This is more cool than Brett Favre's home in Green Bay.
5 posted on 08/26/2003 9:38:50 AM PDT by PackerBoy (Just my opinion ....)
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To: Between the Lines
Or a trendy nightclub -- think "The Bomb Shelter."

I was thinking more like, "Get Down".

6 posted on 08/26/2003 9:38:58 AM PDT by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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To: Between the Lines
I've seen some bunkers turned into houses on HGTV. Great climate control!
7 posted on 08/26/2003 9:39:13 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Pray for Terri Schiavo!)
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To: Between the Lines
You could remake Terminator 3 with this.
8 posted on 08/26/2003 9:39:25 AM PDT by Monty22
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To: Between the Lines
I'd like to bid on it, but it's a tad over my budget.

Plus, it'd be a b:tch to move to Arkansas.

9 posted on 08/26/2003 9:40:42 AM PDT by Budge (God Bless FReepers!)
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To: Between the Lines
http://www.missilebases.com/
10 posted on 08/26/2003 9:41:24 AM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Like all the jolly good fellows, I drink my whiskey clear....)
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To: Between the Lines
A perfect place for an illegal enterprise. Drug manufacturing, weapons manufacturing -- how would the police storm the facility???
11 posted on 08/26/2003 9:42:05 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I am the extended middle finger in the fist of life.)
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To: Between the Lines
Why wouldn't these guys want it?
12 posted on 08/26/2003 9:42:08 AM PDT by krb (the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
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To: Constitution Day
Put this on the NC ping list please
13 posted on 08/26/2003 9:45:16 AM PDT by Baseballguy
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To: Baseballguy
With pleasure! This is too cool.
14 posted on 08/26/2003 9:49:51 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: *Old_North_State; **North_Carolina; mykdsmom; 100%FEDUP; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; ~Vor~; ...
NC ping!
15 posted on 08/26/2003 9:50:33 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Between the Lines
Track whoever buys it. I would not like the Saudis to set up shop there.
16 posted on 08/26/2003 9:53:35 AM PDT by Alouette (The bombing begins in five minutes.)
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To: Onelifetogive
Reminds me of the NASA tracking station in Rosman, NC that a group of UFO sky watchers managed to buy a few years back.

The old Rosman tracking station

17 posted on 08/26/2003 10:02:41 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: martin_fierro
The DNC should buy it, call it "THE RAT HOLE" and use it to hide Texas RATS or any other RAT hiding from a vote.
18 posted on 08/26/2003 10:05:17 AM PDT by JoeSixPack1 (POW/MIA - Bring 'em home, or send us back! Semper Fi)
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To: martin_fierro
"I was thinking more like, "Get Down"."

Or... "The DUCK and COVER"

19 posted on 08/26/2003 10:11:40 AM PDT by Hatteras ("Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends")
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To: Between the Lines
Another member sent me this:

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20 posted on 08/26/2003 10:25:02 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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