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Survival Condo

The Survival Condo or Luxury Survival Condo Project is a company and real estate property in Kansas, which has converted an Atlas ICBM missile silo into a 15-story underground bunker.

Raven 11 history

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Owner Laurence "Larry" A. Hall Jr.[1][2] (described as "a burly Willy Wonka"[3]) purchased the Raven Ridge 11[4] Atlas missile silo at Raven Ridge near Concordia, Kansas (39°24′43″N 97°40′50″W / 39.4119444°N 97.6805556°W / 39.4119444; -97.6805556)[2][5] in 2008 for $300,000. It is 197 feet (60 m) in depth, which he built into a 15-floor bunker complete with tilapia aquaponic facility, vegetable gardens, mini grocery store, swimming pool, theater, library, gym, sauna and steam room, jail cell, climbing wall, bar, three years of stockpiled food, and 12 condo units for up to 75 people. The development was completed by 2012 at a cost of $20 million.[3][5][6][7][8][9]

The facility also contains a shooting range, three armories, decontamination room, volcanic ash remover, reverse osmosis water filtration, and a remote-controlled .223 rifle (with a fully automated mode) in a sniper post atop the facility to defend the bunker. It also has at least two armored vehicles including a Pit-Bull VX tactical truck, typically used as a SWAT vehicle.[3][8][10][11] It also has small apartments for an undisclosed number of employees, such as maintenance and medical staff.[5]

The vice president of business development is Bill Craig.[5]

Owners

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While owners may occupy units at any time, in 2020 none were doing so.[6] Hall has stated all 12 units had been sold in 2014 and 2017, though 6 appeared for sale in 2020.[5][11][12][13] Owners include:[6]

  • Nik Halik[6]
  • Tyler Allen, real estate developer from Florida[6][8][14]
  • A woman from New York City who has also contributed 2600 bottles of wine to the bar[8]
  • Peter Ziegler until 2017 (see below)
  • Robert David Harris MD, Unit 7S (see below)[15]
  • Larry Hall, facility owner, also owns a condo in the development, Unit 7N[2][8][13]

Peter Ziegler

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In 2013, Peter Ziegler, (son of William Ziegler III, grandson of William Ziegler Jr.) purchased Unit 5 and also loaned $3 million to LAH Cubed with a promissory note, due one year later. Ziegler died in 2017. The estate formally demanded the funds, which were in default by late 2018. Shortly after, Hall's LAH Cubed transferred assets to other LLCs in his name. The estate filed in January 2019 to pierce the corporate veil as Hall/LAH Cubed had transferred assets to other LLCs. In a May 2019 response, LAH Cubed stated that there was confusion, that Ziegler owed LAH for $5 million in improvements, so the $3 million was partial payment towards that, which satisfied the note, but he died before actually voiding it. LAH also denied any connection between Ziegler and the asset transfers. The parties settled out of court in August 2019.[2][16][17]

Co-op

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The facility is owned by the not-for-profit Raven Ridge of Kansas Site 11, Inc., incorporated in 2012.[18][19] By 2020 the company board contained Larry Hall, Leila Samoodi Centner of Brookville, New York (cofounder of Centner Academy Miami[20][21][22]), Lizanne Holland of Westerly, Rhode Island, and Robert D. Harris MD of Snoqualmie, Washington.[23]

Raven 10

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Hall discussed a second silo that was being converted in 2017 as being 25 miles (40 km) away. This Raven 10 facility (39°01′10″N 97°51′02″W / 39.019515°N 97.850423°W / 39.019515; -97.850423) is in Tescott, Kansas and owned by Raven Ten Development LLC.[2][24]

Other projects

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Hall had options on four other silos in 2017 and was designing private bunkers for clients.[8][9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Kansas BESS, Business Entity ID 4634887, LAURENCE A HALL - 1325 GOLD ROAD, GLASCO, KS 67445; license moved to Kansas from Florida in 2012
  2. ^ a b c d e "LAH Cubed, LLC" (PDF), Brighton v. LAH Cubed, LLC (Court Filing), no. 2:19-CV-02051, Docket 1, D.K.S., 30 January 2019, retrieved 12 August 2020 – via Recap
  3. ^ a b c Bradley Garrett (1 August 2020). "Weapons rooms, fake windows and a $3m price tag: inside a luxury doomsday bunker". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  4. ^ David Wright (19 November 2014). "I Spent the Night in a Luxury Underground Doomsday Bunker". ABC Nightline. Retrieved 12 August 2020. Welcome to Ravens Ridge ... Ravens Ridge of Kansas Site 11, a former Atlas Missile silo
  5. ^ a b c d e Katherine Burgess (24 February 2017). "Surviving doomsday: Underground condos bring wealthy to Kansas". The Wichita Eagle. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e Bradley Garrett (28 July 2020). "A Look Inside the Luxury Bunker Built by Doomsday Preppers for the Apocalypse". Newsweek. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse. Do they know something?". BBC Three. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Osnos, Evan (23 January 2017). "Survival of the Richest: Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich". The New Yorker. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  9. ^ a b Carolyn Said (3 April 2020). "Billionaire bunkers: Where the elite may ride out the coronavirus pandemic". SFChronicle.com. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  10. ^ Siler, Wes (30 January 2017). "Everything Wrong with Peter Thiel's Doomsday Survival Plan". Outside Online. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  11. ^ a b Melia Robinson; Taylor Borden (18 February 2020). "Here's a look inside a 15-story underground doomsday shelter for the 1% that has luxury homes, guns, and armored trucks". Business Insider. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Survival Condo Kansas, Doomsday Condos". kansascityhomes4u.com. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  13. ^ a b "Why Some Silicon Valley Tech Executives Are Bunkering Down For Doomsday". NPR.org. 25 January 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  14. ^ Popescu, Adam (13 March 2020). "Inside the Survivalist Bunker Where Some Wealthy People Hope to Ride Out Coronavirus". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  15. ^ Kansas BESS THE HARRIS SURVIVAL CONDO, LLC, Business Entity ID 8873085, 1325 Gold Road Unit 7S, GLASCO, KS 67445
  16. ^ "LAH Cubed, LLC" (PDF), Brighton v. LAH Cubed, LLC (Court Filing), no. 2:19-CV-02051, Docket 16, D.K.S., 30 January 2019, retrieved 12 August 2020 – via Recap
  17. ^ James Dornbrook (4 February 2019). "Lawsuit: Developer of luxury doomsday survival condos defaulted on loan - Kansas City Business Journal". Kansas City Business Journal. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  18. ^ "ULS Application - Industrial/Business Pool, Conventional - 0005787233 - Raven Ridge of Kansas Site #11, Inc". wireless2.fcc.gov. Retrieved 12 August 2020. Raven Ridge of Kansas Site #11, Inc. 1325 Gold Road Glasco, KS 66956 ATTN Todd Buston
  19. ^ Kansas BESS RAVEN RIDGE OF KANSAS SITE 11, INC., Business Entity ID 6769863, LARRY HALL - 1325 Gold Road, GLASCO, KS 67445
  20. ^ "Centner Academy Miami | An International School". Centneracademy. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  21. ^ Erik Bojnansky (May 2020). "The Privileged Class". biscaynetimes.com. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  22. ^ "Shock and Aww!". The New York Times. 29 July 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  23. ^ Kansas Secretary of State. "RAVEN RIDGE OF KANSAS SITE 11, INC. 2020 Annual Report". kssos.org. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  24. ^ Kansas BESS, RAVEN TEN DEVELOPMENT, LLC, Business Entity ID 9172164, LAURENCE A HALL - 427 K 18 HWY, TESCOTT, KS 67484
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