The Greenbrier Hotel, home to the sooper sekret Congressional bunker filed for bankruptcy this year.Okay, so they moved the location of the Congressional bunker to some place else years ago, its still surprising that a place with such a historic past would now found itself in trouble and not be mentioned more prominantly in the news.On March 20, 2009, the resort filed for bankruptcy, listing debt of up to $500 million and assets of $100 million. The resort lost $166 million in 2008. Pending court and regulatory approval, the resort was to be sold to the Marriott hotel chain, contingent upon significant concessions from the unions and approval of $50 million in financing from CSX, however on May 7, 2009 the Justice family of West Virginia publicly claimed that it had purchased the resort for $20million. The Justice family, headed by patriarch James Justice, has extensive farm and milling operations in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina including 50,000 acres that it farms through its Justice Family Farms group headquarterd in Beckley, West Virginia. In early 2009, it sold its Bluestone Coal Corporation network of West Virginia coal mines to Mechel.[3]
The Marriott Corporation, however, asserted that it had a valid contract to purchase the hotel, and expected to see that contract honored.