There were attempts to revive the complex in the years that followed. The Cavalier County Job Development Authority first unveiled plans to redevelop the site back in 2006, though these would sit dormant for over a decade.

In 2012, it was announced that the Missile Site Radar and its surrounding land were to be sold via an online General Services Administration auction. The complex was in a dire state of repair by this point.

According to The Jamestown Sun, at the time of the auction, the General Services Administration, which owns the facility, insisted that the successful bidder pay to clean up the site. An estimated 420,000 gallons of groundwater had reportedly seeped into the underground missile silos and become contaminated.

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