These levels, which are the former Launch Control Center, comprise 2,300 additional square feet that includes a kitchen and dining room, two bedroom suites with Jacuzzi-studded marble bathrooms, and an entertainment room. The top level also has a staircase that winds down 125 feet into the earth, leading to two more subterranean levels of living space. Outside there's a wraparound porch, an outdoor shower and a garage/airplane hangar. Its top floor, or the above-ground floor, spans 1,800 square feet that includes a living area with fireplace, a master bedroom suite and two bathrooms. For starters, a finished house less than 20 years old. So for three quarters of a million dollars - the price of a one bedroom in a decent Manhattan high-rise- here's what you get. They have hired Select Sotheby's International Realty to co-broker the listing with Francisco as well. The cousins are ready to be rid of the property (and their business partnership on it), hence the 70% price discount. The property has actually been on and off the market for several years, asking $2.6 million, and then $1.76 million, with no buyer materializing. "It's a real steal, especially since we put millions of dollars into restoring it," admits Francisco, who says the silo spent 30 years submerged in water before Francisco's cousin and business partner, Gregory Gibbons, got his hands on it in 1991. So how much do the owners want for this apocalypse-ready vacation home? A surprisingly modest $750,000. Construction costs in 1958 for silos like this one tallied $18 million apiece, explains Francisco, equaling nearly $400 million in today's inflation-adjusted dollars. The silo was started in 1958 and construction finished two to three years later. This site's purpose was to stash such a missile in the event of a nuclear Armageddon, capable of both firing a ICBM from its launchpad and protecting onsite workers from a direct nuclear attack. The Silo Home's underground system was built in late 1950s to house an Atlas-F Missile, a Cold War era intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) upon which nuclear warheads could sit. "You wouldn't know this was a missile silo until you get inside and start walking down and realize the stairs just keep going." "I actually could fly you in and you would think it is just a normal home," explains Bruce Francsico, one half of the real estate development duo that owns the Silo Home, and an airplane pilot himself.
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