The Congressional Nuclear Bunker Is for Sale Due to a Defaulted Mortgage

The Greenbrier Lodge, an iconic West Virginia landmark that was as soon as the positioning of the Congressional nuclear bunker, is on the market to the best bidder. The rationale? West Virginia Governor Jim Justice defaulted on the loan.

The world discovered the Greenbrier was on the market after the folks holding the bag for the mortgage put a authorized commercial within the West Virginia Daily News. The discover stated that anybody who desires the resort advanced and the grounds shall be shopping for it as is, are answerable for the substantial again taxes, and must have money in hand on the day of sale.

“The undersigned Substitute Trustee will promote the actual property described within the Deed of Belief, at a public public sale on August 27, 2024 at 2 p.m. to the best bidder on the entrance door of the Courthouse of stated County of Greenbrier, in Lewisburg, West Virginia,” the discover stated.

Justice, who’s within the midst of a run for the Senate, blamed Democrats for his fumbling of the mortgage. Justice purchased the Greenbrier in 2009 after the resort went bankrupt and it’s been a headache ever since. JPMorgan Chase lent Justice $142 million for the property in 2014. In line with a press release from the governor, the 2 events had been negotiating a discount of the debt since 2021.

JPMorgan offered the debt to Beltway Capital in July. The brand new house owners instantly known as within the mortgage.

“ANOTHER POLITICAL STUNT BY THE DEMOCRAT MACHINE,” the Governor’s assertion learn in all caps. “In latest days, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s staunch ties to the Democrat celebration and his help for the Biden-Harris administration and continued management of the Senate by the Democrats have been nicely documented. This political stunt is simply the newest of a number of rounds of assaults on Governor Justice and his companies for political achieve.”

The Greenbrier is a historic landmark whose historical past is woven into the material of America. The sulfur spring water within the land has been a vacation spot for these in search of rest and therapeutic because the late 1700s. Within the Fifties, Washington excavated big chunks of the land and dug out a bunker that Congress would use within the occasion of a full-scale nuclear struggle.

The bunker continues to be there and vacationers can stroll its slender corridors and see the bunk beds senators and congresspeople would have slept on if a struggle had damaged out. There’s a faux Rose Backyard room for press conferences, a make-shift Senate chamber, and train bikes outfitted with ashtrays.

Bethesda created a virtually 1-to-1 copy of the Greenbrier in its online game Fallout 76, which is about in a post-apocalyptic West Virginia. Forward of the launch of the sport, Bethesda held a big press occasion on the Greenbrier and threw a celebration within the bunker.

Now that historic landmark is up on the market, regardless of full-throated pushback from Justice. “Let me be clear that the Greenbrier won’t be offered, and the Justice household will take all obligatory motion to make sure that there won’t be any adversarial impression on their possession of the Greenbrier or the Greenbrier’s operations and the power of the Greenbrier to proceed to supply world-class service for its friends shall be uninterrupted” Bob Wolford, an legal professional engaged on behalf of the Justice household, said in a statement.