Bunker Hotel

[Bobby]

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013 ... unker?lite

[housil]

I remember seeing a TV show about it over here.

[sodjer]

this is for rationtin440 http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/sh ... sile-Silos
enjoy

[rationtin440]

Awesome pics, ty sodjer! reminds me of some abandoned AT&T bunkers that I've seen---pretty much the same idea as silos but just missing that vertical feature As for folks wanting to turn them into shtf residences, personally I'd buy an AT&T bunker from American Tower Corp. because to me it is kinda like getting MREs from friends in the military vs. ordering MREs from civilian mfg. in that you really don't know for sure how good the military ones would be, how long they sat in the sun before being stuffed in a duffel bag, etc. whereas with civilian mfg. company purchasing and American Tower Corp. you know that both companies will stand by their product. I hope that comparison was not too confusing.

[Ruleryak]

Bobby - that hotel looks like a really great deal! I'd definitely stay there for a night if I could, heh.

Hey 440 - are you aware of any of the old AT&T sites actually for sale? As far as I knew American Tower Corp sold them all almost a decade ago to radio stations and communications companies. I tried digging for a while this morning and couldn't find any available through AT.

[Bobby]

I think I will stick to regular hotels..I pulled enough guard duty in the AF...As for AT&T bunkers I am not aware of any for sale..

[sodjer]

http://www.missilebases.com/adirondack even a bit for my plane

[rationtin440]

Unfortunately Ruleryak I don't know of any that are for sale at this time, also my communications contacts in the MA army national guard have all retired and are no longer "in the loop." On a side note: thanks to a really stupid GPS error, a friend of mine nearly got himself arrested and did succeed in getting the living-@#$% scared out of him when he went off-road "exploring" in upstate New York a couple weeks ago. Seems that some AT&T facilities are still active and they really don't give guided tours!

[rationtin440]

My apologies, but I forgot to mention this situation that may partly explain the lack of AT&T bunker availability. Back in the day, alot of places like these were built with asbestos as a key ingredient, and as I understand, it is a major headache, legally and financially, for whomever is required to clean up the residue not only of the asbestos, but the dormant sewerage systems that may still be there, along with the inevitable lead shielding on parts of the bunker that can be expected to be exposed to radioactive fallout. If you combine that with the heavy metal pollution likely to be present in the surrounding soil, I would guess that American Tower probably looked at some of these places and said, "you know what? too expensive to clean up, not worth the effort." Although it would be nice to own a piece of cold war history.

[Ruleryak]

Sodjer - I've been keeping an eye on that site for years - that particular property used to be for sale for 1.1 million, so it looks like they're trying to cash in on the whole doomsday crowd I actually ordered the site's VHS tape about 10 or 15 years ago, it had a tour of a fairly well known converted silo home and then a bunch of other silo's for sale that were either being renovated or had already been cleaned up. The problem with those though is the cost. Cleanup, for reasons 440 mentioned, is massively expensive. Not only are these places usually remote and lacking services, they contain dangerous materials that need to be handled with hazmat procedures - making removal much pricier than it should be.

The AT&T bunkers were going for $25k on average about 10 years ago, but it looks like I missed the boat there! Many of the ones around me in Montana have been bought up by a radio communications company that kept the towers and leases space for repeaters, antennas, etc on the towers themselves - they also seem to want to lease the interiors for datacenters and whatnot, but I don't think they've been having any luck with that just yet. (Their Site)