Giant concete home construction in the Ozark

More fodder for the conspiracy theorists or maybe not at all.

A home near Highlandville, MO, US that rumors claim will be built entirely out of concrete and bullet-proof glass, will span the length and width of about one acre on a five hundred acre stretch of land. The structure itself will boast a nice 73,000 square feet of room. Let's compare, shall we?



http://www.ozarkmountains.org/


The average US home size in the last 5 years comes to about 2300 square feet. The not so average? Take Bill Gates' house. 66,000 sqaure feet. The White House is smaller, coming to 55,000 square feet. The "mansion" in Highlandville could potentially fit twenty-six average sized homes (and more!) in the space it occupies.

According to blueprints, there are plans for fifteen bedrooms, fourteen bathrooms, a two story library and a two story great hall. All big, of course. Big means BIG. The basement alone is 2300 square feet and will apparently be used mostly for storage purposes. That's a lot of stuff.

All in all, so what? The biggest house in America. Move that bus! Congratulations, Huff family. Wait, no.

The deed to the land names Steven T. Huff. Online records of political campaign contributions show a Steven T. Huff of Leesburg, VA - an engineer and chief technology officer of Overwatch Systems, Ltd. Overwatch's website states that the company “delivers multi-source intelligence (multi-INT), geospatial analysis and custom intelligence solutions to the Department of Defense, national agencies and civilian organizations. ... More than 25,000 analysts in the U.S. Department of Defense and the larger intelligence community utilize Overwatch solutions.”

So why all the concrete and bullet-proof glass? Planning and zoning restrictions are allowing only one family to occupy the "residence" at a time and that doesn't sound much like a home. Steven's brother, the project manager, suggested that the concrete structure in progress is actually an insulated concrete structure protecting the real building going on inside. According to onlookers, builders and equipment arrive daily and it's been going on for a full year.