Mark Zuckerberg Building a Home With Escape Hatch, Bunker: Report

Table Of Content

• Everything we know about the gigantic complex — complete with a bunker — that Mark Zuckerberg is building in Hawaii
• Maria Bello and Dominique Crenn spark marriage rumors at Time100 Gala
• Zuckerberg Kauai Property Map
• The Wall of Silence
• Mark Zuckerberg vacation houses in Lake Tahoe
• Take a tour of Mark Zuckerberg's gigantic $100 million property in Hawaii
• An enormous compound

The compound is designed to be entirely self-sufficient, with its own water tank and pump system. The expansive 1,400-acre property serves as a haven for agriculture and ranching, producing a variety of food and resources. While specific details about the self-sustainability measures are scarce, the plans indicate a commitment to preserving natural resources and wildlife habitats. The tech billionaire is in the process of building a luxury estate, rumored to be costing him a cool $260 million, but included in the plans is a secretive underground bunker that’s twice as big as an average Australian home.

Everything we know about the gigantic complex — complete with a bunker — that Mark Zuckerberg is building in Hawaii

“Bill Gates, for example, owns at least eight properties in the US alone and, according to The Hollywood Reporter, ‘is rumoured to have underground security areas under every one of his homes’. Zuckerberg’s bunker certainly prompts a lot of theories about his motivation for the high-priced project, as well as plenty of conspiracies. An operation specialising in underground shelters was active a few years back but appears to have been shuttered. Although, there doesn’t seem to be many, if any local builders who advertise their services specifically for bunkers. Robert Vicino, founder of another bunker design and construction company called Del Mar, was also inundated with interest from interested buyers.

Maria Bello and Dominique Crenn spark marriage rumors at Time100 Gala

We are working with a professor of native Hawaiian studies and long time member of this community, who is participating in this quiet title process with us. In late 2016 Zuckerberg filed lawsuits against hundreds of Hawaiians who may have Kuleana claims to small pieces of land on his property. The Kuleana Act of 1850 granted property rights to Native Hawaiians for lands they cultivated, with the ownership automatically being passed down to descendants. There are thirteen small parcels of land, mostly on the Pila’a property, involved in the lawsuits, with hundreds of descendants who may have a claim.

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Zuckerberg Kauai Property Map

According to the couple’s spokesperson Ben Labolt, the reservoir is considered high-risk and has not been repaired. The Zuckerbergs are committed to fulfilling the legal requirements surrounding the reservoir, Labolt told Business Insider. The compound also hired Arryl Kaneshiro, then sitting chair of the Kauai County Council, as an agricultural consultant.

In late 2016, Zuckerberg owned intermediaries, which had acquired small stakes in the outstanding parcels within the bounds of his property, filed quiet title lawsuits. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have purchased 110 acres of a former sugar plantation reservoir on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A petition on Change.org calling for a halt to the Facebook CEO’s “colonialism” in Hawaii gathered one million signatures. “He is suing Native Hawaiians in Kauai for their land so he can build a mansion.

Mark Zuckerberg vacation houses in Lake Tahoe

These mansions feature multiple elevators, offices, conference rooms, and an industrial-sized kitchen. In addition to the main residences, the compound will house a web of 11 treehouses connected by intricate rope bridges, creating a treetop paradise for visitors. Other amenities include a full-size gym, pools, sauna, hot tub, cold plunge, and tennis court.

Take a tour of Mark Zuckerberg's gigantic $100 million property in Hawaii

The door in the underground shelter will be constructed out of metal and filled in with concrete—a style common in bunkers and bomb shelters. The crown jewel of the $270m project is a 5,000-sq-ft underground shelter with “its own energy and food supplies” and “what appears to be a blast-resistant door”. The compound’s residential structures are hidden from the road, tucked behind a six-foot wall, and monitored by round-the-clock security guards. And, due to the scope and nature of the project, anyone who works on Zuckerberg’s property signs a strict nondisclosure agreement, sources told the publication. “For a private project to have an NDA attached to it is very rare,” a local construction official explained to Wired. At the center of the vast compound, called Koolau Ranch, will be two mansions sitting atop a survivalist bunker.

In November 2021, Zuckerberg and wife added 110 acres to their Kauai real estate holdings, paying $17 million for land that includes a former sugar plantation and the Ka Loko reservoir. In 2006, the reservoir’s dam broke, releasing 400 million gallons of water that killed seven people on Kauai’s North Shore. The reservoir has not been repaired and Zuckerberg will be legally required to make repairs to the dam and reservoir.This acreage is inland, in the area of Zuckerberg’s Koolau Ranch. With this purchase, Zuckerberg and wife now own approximately 1,412 acres on Kauai.

An enormous compound

The new land grab adds to Zuckerberg’s already sizable estate on the island, most of which lies on protected agricultural and conservation land surrounding the couple’s Hawaiian home, Ko‘olau Ranch, according to the Star-Advertiser. Zuckerberg eventually dropped the suit, saying that he and his wife wanted to “make this right, talk with the community, and find a better approach”. Zuckerberg’s massive estate has met with criticism and controversy in the past. In 2016, Zuckerberg angered neighbors when he constructed a 6ft stone wall around his property that blocked easy access to Pila’a Beach, in an attempt to decrease highway and road noise.

In 2015, the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest men on Earth, announced that he would be giving away the bulk of his wealth during his lifetime. One of the main goals of his charity, he wrote in a treacly public letter to his daughter, was “promoting equality”. The subterranean bunker will hold a living space and mechanical room and feature an apparent “blast-resistant” concrete and steel door, Wired reported. Corbi told The Hollywood Reporter that one customer – an unnamed business “mogul” – was desperately to ensure his family was protected, from anyone and anything.

Some residents express frustration with the increased traffic and noise, as well as the loss of ocean views due to the imposing wall surrounding the compound. The couple plan to extend farming, ranching, conservation and wildlife protection work on the land, LaBolt said. Now that the majority of the land is owned by Zuckerberg, there’s no beach access for miles.

Overall, though, we are pleased to see Zuckerberg’s continued stewardship of the land. Most recently, Zuckerberg contributed significantly to Kauai’s Rise to Work program during the COVID-19 pandemic, purchasing mobile labs used for testing and vaccines. To find all these partial owners so we can pay them their fair share, we filed what is called a “quiet title” action. For most of these folks, they will now receive money for something they never even knew they had. As part of Hawaiian history, in the mid-1800s, small parcels were granted to families, which after generations might now be split among hundreds of descendants. There aren’t always clear records, and in many cases descendants who own 1/4% or 1% of a property don’t even know they are entitled to anything.

Mark Zuckerberg has added 110 acres to his controversial 1,500-acre estate in Kauai, Hawaii, dropping $17m for the purchase. New Zealand, considered by some to be the ideal place to wait out an apocalyptic event, is now riddled with bunkers for the tech elite. Recently reinstalled OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has an arrangement with Peter Thiel, first revealed to The New Yorker, where the pair will take a jet to one of Thiel’s New Zealand properties in the case of an apocalyptic event.

In August 2019, 70-year-old security guard Rodney Medeiros, who was under an NDA that, from what his family understood, prevented him from discussing specific details about his job, ended a 12-hour shift standing watch at a beach by the property. He was a contracted worker and was only hired when Zuckerberg was visiting—which he was that weekend, according to court documents reviewed by WIRED. These documents, later filed on behalf of Medeiros’ children, claim that rainy conditions made it impossible for an ATV to pick him up, as was standard practice.

“We think after being outbid by a retired college professor spending $2,145,000, it is now clear that something very wrong is going on,” Wayne Rapozo, a descendant who represented a coalition of other relatives at auction, said at the time. Hoffine Barr did not respond to questions about whether Zuckerberg had financially backed Andrade. She emphasized that Zuckerberg had supported Andrade’s claim because of his connection to the land, where he had lived, raised a family, and paid property taxes.