NukeHampton
Wanna live in the fabulous Hamptons on the site of a former nuclear missile base? That is what advisors are hoping will lure people to this 96-acre parcel in the scrub pines of Westhampton adjacent to Gabreski Airport, just in back of Old Country Road.
The advisors are folks hired by Suffolk County, which now owns this site. They are coming up with ways for the County to sell off a few things it owns to, ahem, raise a little money in these hard times. The missile base is one of them.
The advisors say the property would fetch somewhere between $23 and $47 million. Figure it out. With two acre zoning, you could build a subdivision for 45 homes on the property. Figure you could get $2 million for each two-acre lot with all this history, deduct the cost of permits, roads and drainage and you could still walk away with a cool $30 to $50 million in profit.
In 1960, when this base went operational, there were 56 BOMARC nuclear tipped guided missiles there fully armed and ready to launch on three minutes notice.
