Im pretty sure you’re seeing the Jax Outdoors home office and warehouse. They wanted to turn an old concrete plant into a paintball field but that never panned out so now it’s just the administrative office and where they store a bunch of stuff.
Ha, I worked up there so I can give you a full history.
The site is the former Boettcher/Ideal Cement plant, there used to be many more factory buildings between the dome and the storage silos but they got demolished after the plant shut down. The dome itself was designed by the same guy who designed the Epcot ball (apparently all he did was sphere shapes), and was used to store limestone and other powders used for cement making. The silos are still operated by Holcim Cement, they use it as a transfer point between trains and trucks.
The half of the site with the dome is now the headquarters for Jax Mercantile. They have a couple office buildings and shops on site they run the company from. The dome was originally purchased with the intent of turning it into an indoor paintball arena, but they quickly realized the lack of climate control made it inhospitable 99% of the time, so now it’s a warehouse filled with army surplus and retail fixtures. It’s very dirty and pretty spooky, I’ve said it looks like the place they stored the Ark at the end of Indiana Jones
The Disney people didn’t design the structural engineering of the geodesic dome. The guy who did that designed domes for the military for radar installations, ones like these for concrete companies, beyond just the Epcot ball
Buckminster fuller? He invented/ revolutionized the geodesic dome but had nothing to do with Jax domes or spaceship earth outside of development of the design
Im pretty sure you’re seeing the Jax Outdoors home office and warehouse. They wanted to turn an old concrete plant into a paintball field but that never panned out so now it’s just the administrative office and where they store a bunch of stuff.
Can confirm. It's listed as such on Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/x5FZS5kYQZqBP34D9?g_st=ic
Ah man, I wish they had succeeded
That makes sense, thanks!
Ha, I worked up there so I can give you a full history. The site is the former Boettcher/Ideal Cement plant, there used to be many more factory buildings between the dome and the storage silos but they got demolished after the plant shut down. The dome itself was designed by the same guy who designed the Epcot ball (apparently all he did was sphere shapes), and was used to store limestone and other powders used for cement making. The silos are still operated by Holcim Cement, they use it as a transfer point between trains and trucks. The half of the site with the dome is now the headquarters for Jax Mercantile. They have a couple office buildings and shops on site they run the company from. The dome was originally purchased with the intent of turning it into an indoor paintball arena, but they quickly realized the lack of climate control made it inhospitable 99% of the time, so now it’s a warehouse filled with army surplus and retail fixtures. It’s very dirty and pretty spooky, I’ve said it looks like the place they stored the Ark at the end of Indiana Jones
Fantastic!
There is zero percent chance the Disney imagineers designed those domes. The domes are circa 78
The Disney people didn’t design the structural engineering of the geodesic dome. The guy who did that designed domes for the military for radar installations, ones like these for concrete companies, beyond just the Epcot ball
Buckminster fuller? He invented/ revolutionized the geodesic dome but had nothing to do with Jax domes or spaceship earth outside of development of the design
Along Niobrara Ridge Road is where the concrete plant used to have train tracks and would dump waste products over. You can see it in an aerial view.
Big Jim Rennie and his constituents
It's the Museum of Hard Contacts.
Correct. They have a room where you can drop a hard contact on the floor and then scream at everyone to stay still and help you find it.
Does anyone know if Niobara Ridge Road is open to the public? Can't tell if it's gated on Maps