The Black Mesa facility was apparently built over several decommissioned ICBM launching and testing silo complexes probably constructed during the, which was converted into a vast civilian institute for the research of almost every conceivable.The facility was destroyed by the some day after the cascade. The site was the location of the, the result of a which would have upon the planet for years to come. for short, and colloquially known as Black Mesa, was a scientific research complex built around an abandoned Cold War ICBM launch silo in the New Mexico desert in the United States. The Black Mesa Research Facility, or B.M.R.F.