Man plans to turn 10,000-square-foot jail into a unique Airbnb

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A ten,000-square-foot jail in Missouri went up on the market final month — and has already scored a purchaser who plans to show the property into the last word leisure web site, together with a short-term visitor keep.

Listed for $195,000, the previous Cass County Missouri Regulation Enforcement Middle and Detention Middle/Jail has not been used for greater than 20 years.

“It’s been used as storage with the county and has been vacant,” Paula Voss, who holds the itemizing, informed The Publish.

“It was offered at public sale two years in the past and that’s when the vendor picked it up. After which they’d intentions of constructing it residential. However they determined, ‘Hey, I feel we’re going to go forward and attempt to promote it.’ ”

The brand new proprietor is an out-of-state investor, and Voss provides they’ve plans flip the property into a number of “income-producing alternatives, from an Airbnb to a retail house, to an condominium advanced.”

“We intend to function the jail as a jail-themed leisure,” the unidentified potential proprietor mentioned in a press release.

The brand new proprietor can be on the lookout for companions to hitch in on his thought.

In-built 1960, the constructing stands on a half-acre nook lot, at 208 W. Pearl St.

Out of the ten,000 sq. toes, the constructing has 5,300 sq. toes of workplace house, with “a really safe fenced lot on the rear of the property.”

However the city grew and wanted a a lot larger facility, which has since been constructed 5 minutes away from the outdated jail.

“It’s a extremely massive facility,” Voss mentioned. “However Harrisonville’s intention is to actually improve and enhance their historic sq. space. And this jail that’s on the market is correct off of the sq..”

“So prior to now couple years, that’s seeing a number of progress and a number of turnover and other people enhancing buildings and eating places coming in.”

The vendor has extensively cleaned the jail and repainted the outside.

Options embrace 34 cells that includes bogs and sinks.

It was additionally a web site for the movie “Solitary Confinement,” set to be launched on Amazon quickly, a few man having to determine the way to cope days in solitary confinement.

“I’ve had over 350 inquiries on the property,” Voss mentioned. “It’s been far more than I ever anticipated. But it surely’s been good. And I feel it’s what’s actually good for the city. I grew up there. So it makes me comfortable to see that somebody’s gonna go in there to a vacant constructing and make enhancements.”