A Site That’s Not Apt to Mushroom
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AMHERST, Mass. — It has no view. But for $250,000 you can get your own 44,000-square-foot, climate-controlled, three-story atomic bomb-proof Cold War bunker, complete with glassed-in command theater.
“It’s something of a white elephant,” real estate agent Esta Busi said. But she has had a few inquiries for a former Strategic Air Command bunker underneath a mountain in this college town.
“It’s the only one (for sale) in the U.S.A.,” reads the advertisement. “$250,000, a wild imagination . . . and it’s yours.”
Its latest owner, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, used the center, completed in 1956 when nearby Westover Air Force Base was SAC’s northeastern headquarters, for records storage.
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