Shelters 10,000-square-foot (0.093 ha) have been completed in Indiana, 575 bunkers each 2,150 square feet across a former military base in[2] South Dakota, and others are in the process of construction.
[3] As of September 2022[update], Vicino stated that the company has approximately 100,000 members, of whom more than 1,000 have bought space in one or more of the Vivos shelters.
[4] The first completed shelter, located in Indiana,[5] was built during the Cold War to withstand a near direct hit from a 20-megaton nuclear bomb.
[7][8] Vivos plans to convert a surplus Cold War Soviet-built underground complex of 250,000 square feet (2.3 ha) located in Rothenstein, Germany, into a luxury shelter to house up to 1,000 people, a small zoo, storage for cultural treasures, and a gene bank for reconstituting plants and animals after a possible extinction event.
[14][15] Vivos Group acquired a property of 1967's bases in Fall River County, United States, in 2016 and repurposed it.