The Congressional Nuclear Bunker Is for Sale Because of a Defaulted Loan

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The Greenbrier Hotel, an iconic West Virginia landmark that was erstwhile the tract of the Congressional atomic bunker, is for merchantability to the highest bidder. The reason? West Virginia Governor Jim Justice defaulted connected the loan.

The satellite learned the Greenbrier was for merchantability aft the radical holding the container for the indebtedness enactment a ineligible advertisement successful the West Virginia Daily News. The announcement said that anyone who wants the edifice analyzable and the grounds volition beryllium buying it arsenic is, are liable for the important backmost taxes, and volition person to person currency successful manus connected the time of sale.

“The undersigned Substitute Trustee volition merchantability the existent property described successful the Deed of Trust, astatine a nationalist auction connected August 27, 2024 astatine 2 p.m. to the highest bidder astatine the beforehand doorway of the Courthouse of said County of Greenbrier, successful Lewisburg, West Virginia,” the announcement said.

Justice, who is successful the midst of a tally for the Senate, blamed Democrats for his fumbling of the loan. Justice bought the Greenbrier successful 2009 aft the edifice went bankrupt and it’s been a headache ever since. JPMorgan Chase lent Justice $142 cardinal for the spot successful 2014. According to a connection from the governor, the 2 parties had been negotiating a simplification of the indebtedness since 2021.

JPMorgan sold the indebtedness to Beltway Capital successful July. The caller owners instantly called successful the loan.

“ANOTHER POLITICAL STUNT BY THE DEMOCRAT MACHINE,” the Governor’s connection work successful each caps. “In caller days, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s staunch ties to the Democrat enactment and his enactment for the Biden-Harris medication and continued power of the Senate by the Democrats person been good documented. This governmental stunt is conscionable the latest of respective rounds of attacks connected Governor Justice and his businesses for governmental gain.”

The Greenbrier is simply a historical landmark whose past is woven into the cloth of America. The sulfur outpouring h2o successful the onshore has been a destination for those seeking relaxation and healing since the precocious 1700s. In the 1950s, Washington excavated immense chunks of the onshore and dug retired a bunker that Congress would usage successful the lawsuit of a full-scale atomic war.

The bunker is inactive determination and tourists tin locomotion its constrictive corridors and spot the bunk beds senators and congresspeople would person slept connected if a warfare had breached out. There’s a fake Rose Garden country for property conferences, a make-shift Senate chamber, and workout bikes outfitted with ashtrays.

Bethesda created a astir 1-to-1 transcript of the Greenbrier successful its video crippled Fallout 76, which is acceptable successful a post-apocalyptic West Virginia. Ahead of the motorboat of the game, Bethesda held a ample property lawsuit astatine the Greenbrier and threw a enactment successful the bunker.

Now that historical landmark is up for sale, contempt full-throated pushback from Justice. “Let maine beryllium wide that the Greenbrier volition not beryllium sold, and the Justice household volition instrumentality each indispensable enactment to guarantee that determination volition not beryllium immoderate adverse interaction connected their ownership of the Greenbrier oregon the Greenbrier’s operations and the quality of the Greenbrier to proceed to supply world-class work for its guests volition beryllium uninterrupted” Bob Wolford, an lawyer moving connected behalf of the Justice family, said successful a statement.