A ghost town in the California desert has been purchased by a mysterious buyer, vs 22.5 million dollarsn. The Eagle Mountaina once-thriving community located on the border of a California National Park, was recently purchased by a company called Ecology Mountain Holdings.
There is not much public information about the company, other than its business address, which is at California.
Earlier, the city was bought by a company in Ontario, Californiacalled Eagle Mountain Acquisition LLCwhich was the last of various Kaiser subsidiaries to own the city over the past 40 years. Eagle Mountain was a thriving company town in 1983when most of the area’s population worked in its mine, Kaiser Steel.
The once prosperous town was a bustling community of homes, businesses and a school. Eagle Mountain’s decline began in the decade 1970 with the staff cuts at Kaiser that eventually led to its closure four decades ago.
After the decline of the mine, the Eagle Mountain it became the home of a condemned woman prison low-security facility, which opened in 1988. The city’s former bowling alley, cafeteria and other buildings housed 438 prisoners who had been locked up for non-violent offences.
The private prison promoted her professional development of prisoners and the reduction of recidivism rates. In 1992, the Press-Enterprise wrote of the prison that it “brought a ghost town back to life.” In October 2003, a riot occurred while inmates were watching the World Series in the prison’s recreation room. Two prisoners died and eight were later charged with murder.
Mystery with the property
A possible clue as to who bought the city and what his plans are for it is that in 2021, the trucking tycoon Balwinder S. Wraich bought more than 1,000 acres of Desert Center – of a town that shares a road with Eagle Mountain.
THE Wraich is working with Wraich Transport in the neighboring city of Fontana and has previously clarified its plan for the area. “We are going to develop a truck stop, a gas station and a hotel,” he previously said, according to dailymail.co.uk. “No food for 40 miles. My goal is to get something big within the next two years. It will help the community».
Source: News Beast
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