If another missile silo listing comes along, we’ll keep an eye out for a booming response. While this York missile complex is under contract, Figueroa has already received a call from the owner of another Nebraska silo in the Lincoln area. A spruced-up space could work as an Airbnb rental, ultimate man cave, or a prepper paradise that’s ultrasecure. While it’s unclear what the next owner will do with the space, options abound. Now they live out of state and want to pass the project on to someone else who wants to burrow into a serious project.
The original owners purchased the property in 1998, inspired by fears of the impending Y2K crisis and the predicted malfunction of some computer systems prior to or at the beginning of the year 2000. The now-empty silo is 174 feet deep and 52 feet across, with reinforced concrete walls and two massive launch doors that weigh over 50 tons. There’s heat as well as a kitchen and dining area. The first level is “completely livable” with electricity, hot and cold running water, and a bath tub. The undergound dwelling features 1,256 square feet of space on each floor, although the lower level remains unfinished. (A BLAST from the past and built to last per the listing.) The. The facility consists of a two-story underground residence, where crews lived 24/7, as well as the original command and control center, complete with the launch button. A converted Atlas-F missile silo in York, Nebraska, once home to a thermonuclear warhead, is on the market for 550,000. Watch: $275K Ohio House Comes With Jail Cells
You see how much money they spent at the time, $17 million to $18 million on one site,” he says. The 174-foot inverted tower of reinforced concrete with a two-story launch control center a Cold War. “We were just amazed at the history of it, the effort it took to construct these. And for 550,000, the subterranean missile silo 5 miles west of York can be yours to own. The command center was carved out of concrete and was. Underground living quartersįor those who like to be prepared for an above-ground catastrophe, a heavily fortified underground bunker might be just the ticket.įigueroa sees the 2,500-square-foot space as a true bargain. Decommissioned in 1965, the home now incorporates the missile launch control center 35 feet underground into part of its living space. The sites, whose purpose was to serve as a deterrent during the Cold War, were then decommissioned and ultimately sold to private owners. The missile sites were constructed in the early 1960s and operational from 1962 through 1965. This missile site in the middle of Nebraska was just one of 12 around the state built in the 1960s. The missile was stored vertically in a “super-hardened silo” designed to withstand a nuclear attack. When you're in the home, you can't hear any noise above ground, Dominic says.The underground complex once housed an Atlas-F missile.
Set between thick concrete walls, the home is designed to survive nuclear explosions, earthquakes, blizzards and nearly any other disaster imaginable. The home still has all the necessary features of a normal single-family residence - kitchen, bathrooms and living area. In the late 1960s, the silos were decommissioned and auctioned off to be private residences. In this home, like others, the missile was held in an underground silo connected to the missile launch control center. began developing the Atlas missile system, which placed the missiles in bases throughout the country. The missile silo is leftover from the beginning of the Cold War, when the U.S. "An organic vegetable farm, hydroponics, precious metal vault, deep-sea diving school, test facility, or even a bird sanctuary," Dominic said. As for the actual silo that once held the missile? It's 185 feet deep by 52 feet in diameter and could be whatever the buyer wants. The rest of the home still has all the necessary features of a normal single-family residence - kitchen, bathrooms and living area. "There’s an actual launch control desk, and he restored it," Dominic said.
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