The Retina scan is still operational and can be used to close and open doors it is no longer registered with the FBI.” That feature is still possible should it be necessary at some point. They spent approximately $150,000 on the theater conversion.” The room has 3-inch-thick steel doors that can close automatically. My client is in the entertainment business and wanted a great theater in their home, and they felt this was the perfect solution. Says Levi, “Our current sellers are the ones who converted the safe room into the theater. The safe room was installed by a previous owner who was a legal arms dealer. Adam LathamĬurrently on the market in Pacific Palisades is a six-bedroom, 9,100-square-foot home, listed for $6.995 million with Farah Levi of The Agency, with a safe room that was converted into a screening room.
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Ready to take on the zombie apocalypse.”Ī movie theater, converted from a safe room, in a six-bedroom home in Pacific Palisades, California, listed with Farah Levi of The Agency. Television, microwave, small bathroom … I mean, it was like a little self-sufficient, almost studio apartment, if you will. “There were packs of food that wouldn’t go bad for two years. “I think there was more artillery in there than probably one of the bunkers of the U.S. Hartoonian recalls one house he saw in Hidden Hills. Some panic room owners are not waiting on the police to arrive, instead taking matters into their own hands. And in most of L.A., you could be waiting a couple of hours before the police get to you,” Cryer says. I mean, it depends where you are in the world. “Within the room itself, you could be in there for up to 24 hours. Some also are used as storage rooms for valuables, and the fanciest safe rooms have toilets and HVAC systems separate from the rest of the house.
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“We’ve seen some of them be fitted with a bathroom, some with outlets for cable TV surround sound,” says The Agency’s Emil Hartoonian. Some safe rooms are designed with all the benefits of an upscale den. So, you wouldn’t know what room in the house was the safe room. We say it’s an everyday use room, which when needed can be turned into a safe haven. “It’s gone from a steel, cold room where it’s a bunch of cameras,” Cryer says. Cryer says the firm collaborates with security guards and former officials in law enforcement to constantly improve impregnability. Most rooms are opened with biometrics, usually a finger or retina scan secreted behind a bookcase or hidden wall, and come equipped with panic buttons that automatically call security services. So, we’re generating up to 10,000 pounds in a room.” “And then we’re installing steel within the room. “Just the doors can be 2,000 to 3,000 pounds,” says Cryer. Safe rooms at level three may be protected with Kevlar, while a level eight is encased in thick steel. In business for 25 years, Building Consensus/Panic Room (which consulted on the 2002 movie Panic Room) builds various safe spaces ranging in security levels from one through eight. They just had to assume it was dead space, when in fact behind a secret panel was a safe room.” “And we weren’t allowed to tell them what it was. “We once had a property and an appraiser come and was measuring the home, and they could not figure out why there was this kind of dead space,” he says. The last thing you want to do is show them, ‘Here’s the panic room, and here’s how you access it,’ ” says Jon Grauman of The Agency. “You never know who’s potentially casing a house. Often, they can’t mention its existence at all until the property is under contract. Real estate agents, though, can never tell casual buyers or appraisers the exact location of a safe room. House From Philanthropist Jamie Tisch (Exclusive) 'Joker' Screenwriter Scott Silver Buys $4.9M L.A.
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