#WAXAHACHIE SUPERCOLLIDER MOVIE#

(Shortly before Hunt resigned as chairman of his trucking company in 1993, Forbes estimated his net worth at $415 million.) This author interviewed Hunt soon after his purchase while researching a book about America's richest people. Until the summer of 2006, when the Pinnacle Group, a development company of which Hunt was a partner, bought the site for just $6.5 million.

#WAXAHACHIE SUPERCOLLIDER MOVIE#

There have been rumors about alternative uses for the site - a movie studio, a recording complex, even an anti-terrorism training facility - but they all came to nothing. In the offices, a 1990 Ellis County telephone directory titled Super Collider Country can still be found on a desk, and the head-shot of a 1980s pinup girl flashes a suggestive look from a wall. Shattered glass litters the entrance to one building, while tile panels are missing from the ceiling of another. The complex was handed over to Ellis County, and a 10-year period of stagnation began. After the project was shut down the tunnel shafts were filled and the warehouses abandoned. Today, the abandoned site stands as a haunting monument to the false starts that have plagued the collider. had to give up its project in Texas after Congress yanked funding - though not before the Department of Energy had built infrastructure, warehouses and almost 15 miles of underground tunnels at a $2 billion cost to the U.S.

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