The other three will be built with “a simple palette of painted wood shingle siding, natural cedar shake roofing, painted windows and french doors, and stained wood doors where they are solid.”
The new homes are shrinking after Facebook’s 32-year-old CEO was forced to fend off a developer who threatened to build a house behind his that would have been tall enough to get a view into Zuckerberg’s bedroom window.
In 2012, Zuckerberg started buying up neighbors’ houses at inflated prices. They’ve all been mostly vacant for more than a year, although there have been local news reports of unidentified occupants.
Having weathered an attempted shakedown, Zuckerberg isn’t expected to surrender control of the new homes. Instead, insiders speculate he might use them for family and friends, Facebook employees — and a sizable security detail.
A timeline hasn’t been set for the project, but Zuckerberg is taking pains to minimize disruption for neighbors by razing and rebuilding all the homes at once and assembling as many parts as possible off-site.
Read more at: http://nypost.com/2016/05/24/is-zuckerberg-building-a-secure-bunker-next-to-his-home/