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Originally Posted by xelasnave
Yes there is a dark sky community ...my place  ..the only problem there are no others in the community  ...er now that I think about it that is not so bad  .
What we need is someone to get one off the ground...er build one on the ground... someone with vast experience with these sorts of ideas....mmm...someone like you Lance  .
I have priced some shipping containers...little boxes on the hill side not made of ticky tacky but they will all look just the same...not bad..$2000 odd but I have yet to see one..but a mate is buying one..in fact his family is moving in next to the Ex so I will get to see it and sus the flok who supplied it...and I think the crew supplying the container are letting them pay it off...$30 a week I think ...but as time passes I will learn more.........and there is a place in Queensland who fits them out such that real folk would not feel they have compromised on necessities...they put in fancy kitchens and bathrooms, windows and I sw one with a laundry..why you need one of those I have no idea...but how much I do not at this stage know... they are on the net but I never got the link off the person who showed me...next time maybe.
I think I have all your links in the right place now anywyas I can get them up on this machine..my last note was from another machine I can not spend much time on ..so maybe my comment does not seem that strange now...so from that (after reading tehm all again) I can say you could be the mayor of such a community Lance ...and I am sure it would not be long before you could arrange shipping containers for a modest "Town" ....but I want the candle franchise  .
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Ya know Alex, with all them shipping containers for cheap (compared to wood $$$) it makes good sense and man are they secure! Set up a couple big 40 footers with a roll off roof, then use the 20s for "cottages". i can see even a commune style kitchen dinning hall/patio too.
Look at your garden variety observatory complex, they all got that "MadMax/Post-Modern/MoonScape vib!
But let's take a look at how a well known amateur
astronomer and a real estate developer/amateur
astronomer made this work. As i recall ASV is
on 450 acres and they made 85, 4 acre lots that
sold for $25,000 each. Let's assume that all 85
lots sold for the low price of only 25K, this
gives you 2.1 Million and change.
[As a side note, i've read that 30 lots sold
in the 1st weekend by phone, to their fellow
amateur astronomers!]
i do not know what they paid for the land, or when
they bought the land. Nor do i know how much went
into subdividing, the roads and the cost of bringing
power to the site. (i do know that buyers had to
drill their own wells.) But i would think that the
investors easily made their money back,
plus each
got a lot, house, scope
and enough to develop
the community center/observatory to house the
30" Starmaster.
Not bad! i told my wife: "i can hear their wife's
saying;
ARE YOU CRAZY! BUYING LAND IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE ARIZONA DESERT!
TO START A DARK SKY COMMUNITY!
NO ONE WILL FALL FOR THAT MISTER!
Lance aka "abellhunter"
http://www.anzaobservatory.com
...is Moving to the Southern Hemisphere any suggestions?