still days in empire remain and like the hats they threw in the tree when the plant closed and while hope remains for usg veteran al wholy. i believe it will come back. i don t know why it wouldn t. i would live here again. but for now, the gates to this empire are closed. mary thompson, cnbc, empire, nevada. big night at the bet awards. a surprise and secret wedding for james bond and prince harry, well, he is setting the record straight about pippa, and joining me is amy palmer contribute for for purewow.com, and she is a pop culture expert in for courtney today. amy, it is a pleasure to see you. let s start off with the bet awards and so much to say, but i won t. where to start. good grief. chris brown took home a number of awards. four awards and two amazing performances and you can see him performing there, and he brought the house down and reminded everybody why he is a super star and number one albums. that was unbelievable,
construction dried up after the housing bubble burst. a company founded in 1923, usg built most of the homes after it built empire in 1948 and recently leasing the homes to employees and the families for under $200 a month. it is hard to think about it closing completely. all of my friends grew up here. and my kids grew up here. reporter: in december, the residents were given five months of free rent and told they needed to leave by june. and without children to teach, the elementary school closed and the two churches are empty and no one plays the nine-hole golf course. and even the zip code is no more. discontinued when the post office shut down, and now any mail is sent to a p.o. box in neighboring gerlock. as for the plant s 93 workers, some are retired and some are out of work, but though a good many found jobs mining gold and
empire, nevada, is now a ghost town after the sole remaining factory closed in january. even the town zip code will no longer exist. we go live to the fallen empire. good morning. reporter: good afternoon or good morning to you, jose. this is yet another victim of the bursting of the housing bubble here in the united states. as you mentioned this town has been shut down. there s been a fence erected around the 130 acres to keep out potential squatters or even the cattle that roam across the plains here in northeastern nevada. as you mentioned the zip code s been discontinued. discontinued when the post office here in empire was shut down. now what s happened is that the plant that supported this town was idled in december. and then the employees who lived here basically through subsidized housing under their employer usg they were given five months rent free living at the 200 homes in empire, nevada,
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