He had heard about the Silicon Valley elite burying bunkers on ranches in New Zealand, wealthy Russian oligarchs buying whole Pacific islands to escape to, and bunkers being subcontracted by the wealthy (notable examples include Bill Gates and Kim Kardashian). By 2010, he had transformed the 60 metre-deep building into a 15-storey luxury bolthole, where up to 75 people could weather five years inside the sealed, self-sufficient bunker. At first, he had planned to build one in a silo but he quickly realised there was another, emerging market – in doomsday prepping for the super-rich. Later, he moved into constructing hardened data centres. In the 90s, he’d worked for a private defence contractor, designing the weapons database for an air force surveillance plane. As an ex-government contractor, property developer and doomsday prepper, with a master’s degree in business, he had the perfect amalgam of attributes to build what had never been done before. Of all the projects that blossomed in the spaces vacated by the state, Hall’s is arguably the most gobsmacking. Yet another silo, in Abilene, Texas, is now a scuba-diving training facility. A third silo was funded by William Shatner (AKA Captain James T Kirk of Star Trek fame) to become a commercial research facility for studying the viability of colonising Mars. Another silo, near Roswell, New Mexico, had been turned into an extraterrestrial communication facility which flashed binary code via laser beam into the cosmos. One silo, in Wamego, Kansas, was raided by police in 2000, when they discovered a giant LSD production facility inside, which was generating up to a third of the country’s supply. Leisure facilities include a pool, pet park and climbing wall.
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