Bunkers, blast doors, treehouses and hush hush.
Surfing is blessed to have many notable adult learners, in these the post-Covid years of our lives, but none more precious than Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook founder, and multi-billionaire, jumped right in with two pale feet, befriending big wave stud Kai Lenny, going out and conquering fifteen-foot waves.
Though our hero has shifted his gaze from the Sport of Kings to mixed-martial arts, his $270 million top-secret compound is plowing right ahead on Kauai. As with other tech scions who made their riches by selling everyone’s personal information, Zuckerberg keeps everything crazy hush hush. Those who work on the property must sign ironclad NDAs. Those who dare take photos or talk about it are disappeared.
Nevertheless, Wired Magazine has done the work to uncover some of what is going on “behind the wall” on the way to Andy Irons’ Hanalei.
According to plans viewed by WIRED and a source familiar with the development, the partially completed compound consists of more than a dozen buildings with at least 30 bedrooms and 30 bathrooms in total. It is centered around two mansions with a total floor area comparable to a professional football field (57,000 square feet), which contain multiple elevators, offices, conference rooms, and an industrial-sized kitchen.
In a nearby wooded area, a web of 11 disk-shaped treehouses are planned, which will be connected by intricate rope bridges, allowing visitors to cross from one building to the next while staying among the treetops. A building on the other side of the main mansions will include a full-size gym, pools, sauna, hot tub, cold plunge, and tennis court. The property is dotted with other guest houses and operations buildings. The scale of the project suggests that it will be more than a personal vacation home — Zuckerberg has already hosted two corporate events at the compound.
There will also be a huge underground bunker with blast doors etc.
Extreme James Bond bad guy.
Do you think when the apocalypse well and truly arrives that the combination of those concrete-filled metal doors and Zuckerberg’s BJJ game will protect him?
Very cool.
More as the story develops.
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word around the campsite is that the Zuckerburger Meister is paying $100mil just for the underground bunker complex.
i’ve got eyes on LIH, and if my kauainsiders see more than 20 private jets land within a two hour time span, I get a call.
password: “get to the chopper”, cuz shit’s about to go real bad.
So on the odd occasion it does break these locals, trying to impress their sponno mates get the word out, making it more crowded every time it does break.
In a sense, similar thing happened to Byron on a less tech bro scale. Ever since Hemsworth moved in, and the advent of sprucing your lifestyle on social media. Byron became palatable to rich, vanilla kooks from Sydney & south east Melbourne. Covid being the final nail in the coffin. Blow in real estate agents keep looking to the surrounding towns and villages to exploit. With it not uncommon for a property 45 – 60 mins west to be classed as ‘Byron hinterland’. Lennox looks more like a designer village out a property lift out than a surf town these days.
Locals now work 50+ hours a week just to survive and stay, rarely getting to surf, while the new locals take over and buy up everything.
What a cunt of a world the internet has provided.
Sprucing yaw larfstarl. as Dr.rudy once said
Hah! I read that first as ‘blow-up’ real estate agents.
Same thing I guess. They are all about as deep.
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Howzit Umpqua so you’ve lived in Kekaha since 2008. Very nice. Choke waves.
Since covid I’ve been visiting the North Umpqua Oregon every spring. Have a small place just outside of Roseburg.
Kinda rednecky but lotsa cheap good weed at all the pot shops.
Funny how these locals get heavy with a lone ranger without cameras etc but will drop to their knees and open their mouths for any pro with a camera crew who is more likely to expose their ‘secret spot”
Just another Rockafella who has done nothing but steal from the people. There are massive underground bunkers in Hawaii. They kidnap people all the time. They Genocided the people of Maui.
And they all support Israel.
Wake up people
These people are evil
^^^This guy^^ “Gets it”!!!!
“If the product (app) is free then you are the product.”
Hang on.
Circular treehouses connected by rope bridges?
Bunker blast doors?
I detect Ewok musk…
Little Saint James 2.0?
Oh, for sure. After the apocalypse(or what the f ever) the rich white dude, is just going to open his doors and go back to being “cool” on maui…..
No, he’ll be one of the first to be eaten!
With a helping of their himilayan rock salt and french truffles for added flavour
He is the least of Kauai’s rich haole problem. The rent a locals he has working for him are paid to keep us away from him where the other 1000 rich haole val’s use their rent a locals to set them up in the line up near the peak ready to block us from sets. But the worst are the surf nannies raising a generation of entitled pricks that think the best surfers in the line up are there to make sure they get the best waves of their lives every session. The local surf stars that set the mags and vids a blaze in the 00’s are now using their limited fame for a limited career of pushing 11 year old transplants named Reef, Kai, and other Kauai surf star names into sets at the bowl. Hating how the rich have priced them out of their island only enough to be good with taking the seemingly easy way out. But when those punks turn 16 and are done hanging with 40 year olds do the rent a local find a new fresh batch of haoles to sponge off of? And then again in their mid 40’s and 50’s. The future of the Kauai’s north is bleak. Not much room for Hawaiians or locals or normal surfers. Paradise for the remote working influencers cool paying 12K a month rent while they find friends for their kids to hang with at Black Pot. So sad what has happened to Black Pot. If you live in a paradise protect it as well as you can by not selling and influencing your neighbors to stay put also. Only a community can preserve paradise. Money has proven to ruin it.
Kekaha next?
Maybe but not till another 20 years of haolefication. I don’t think anyone has ever gone out west and thought “this reminds me of Byron”. Plus the lack of val friendly waves will keep them up north near the bay.
Stone’s throw from Poipu, haolified before Hanalei in a way. About as user friendly waves as it gets.
The rich of Poipu are the middle class of Hanalei. People work on the east, south, and west. Up north it’s all yoga, acai bowls, and BJJ while saying you work remote as the trust fund money floats in.
You guys should employ local “inflation” the way CR has “gringo pricing”. Milk those assholes.
Have friends and family on your beloved island. Don’t know the answers but sure is a beautiful place.
Capitalism at its finest.
Locals falling for corporatism.
It’s a shame.
You hit The nail on the head
eat the rich. soon.
Hawaii desperately needs all the money and brain power it can get.
You best not move there in that case.
Haole get beat up
You get disappeared with that attitude.
That phrase was developed over many beers on the big island after feeling I was about to get beat up for being a tourist in the wrong place in the eyes of locals
I meant Strawman not you.
I suspected as much
How do the white wankers that populate Hanalei feel about this?
When it comes to Jiu Jitsu the key letters are the B and J in BJJ. Goes along with enjoying rolling around on the ground with someone else’s balls mashed in your face.
I guess one could experience that in triangle from mount..
Admittedly, I have no idea what that means.
The article you reference calls it a $100 million compound while you inflate that to $275 million. Are those GAAP practices you learned from reading about current events?
No wonder they wouldn’t want this mess. https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
100 mil property 170 mil building.
You got that backwards but same end result. I’ll read the entire article next time…. actually, I probably won’t.
He learned them from trump u
If the moment arises where so much shit has hit the fan that that ironclad NDA becomes beside the point, it will be those highly paid former military members he paid to protect him who will be the first to park a .45 in Zuckerberg’s brain pan.
Go 9mm, has much higher velocity, supersonic
Any difference in incapacitation rate is negligible.