Contrasting the old-fashioned appearance of these sets, the property is also noted for ultramodern houses and facilities built there after its purchase in 2001 by fashion designer Tom Ford.

[4] The property is "distinguished by lush savanna grasslands, dramatic topography and a rich cultural history", containing "[p]etroglyphs, pictographs, pottery shards and [Puebloan ancestral dwellings]".

[6] Lawrence and Mark Kasdan and their crew scouted a remote area of New Mexico by helicopter, hoping to find the most suitable place to build the town of Silverado.

[7] The Silverado set included 38 storefronts, a church, and two buildings with working interiors for indoor filming—the saloon, and the sheriff's office and jail.

[2] To build on the property, Ford brought in "Pritzker Prize-winning self-taught Japanese architect Tadao Ando with construction overseen by the vaunted American firm of Marmol Radziner".

[11] The main residence is "an extraordinarily long, land-hugging ultra-minimalist concrete and glass pavilion that appears to float on a shallow, lake-sized reflecting pool".

[13] After filming concluded, the owners of the Cerro Pelon Ranch petitioned to keep the $2 million expansion, which was initially supposed to be dismantled within 90 days.