Posted on 08/26/2023 8:02:45 AM PDT by Rusty0604
After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Their goal is to build a utopian new town that will offer its thousands of residents reliable public transportation and urban living, all of which would operate using clean energy.
The land bought by the firm encircles Travis air force base in Fairfield, a city of about 120,000 residents and home to the Anheuser-Busch Co brewery and the Jelly Belly jelly bean factory.
Recently, Flannery has been meeting with local officials and representatives, according to the Times. It has also been sending out opinion polls to local residents to gauge their feelings on an initiative that could appear on Solano county voter’s ballots, according to the newspaper SF Gate.
“This project would include a new city with tens of thousands of new homes, a large solar energy farm, orchards with over a million new trees, and over ten thousand acres of new parks and open space,” a screenshot of the survey obtained by the newspaper reads.
The poll also asks if residents would support the project if it was placed in an area with “bad soil that only contributes 5% of the county’s agricultural production,”
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Well, well, well.
Fruit and orchards for them!
Not sure how successful suing for an “illegal price-fixing conspiracy” will be if they payed multiples of what the land otherwise was going for.
Lots of that is being replaced by little robots anyway. Not sure they’ll want old-fashioned repair riff-raff penetrating their oasis.
"If you build it, they will come"
It actually a pretty smart idea.
map of the land purchased:
They want a secure FOB:
“the wankers that live there can do none of those things”
Many affluent people are quite talented.
How long after starting construction do they Demand the AF Base be closed due to noise?
Didn’t China build one of those — and it sets empty?
Utopiac until the homeless and criminals arrive. It is, after all, California. If they turn away such, they will get sued out of existence.
Leftists will infiltrate its operation and ruin it.
It’s flat and boring there. Only thing interesting are the hills to the West where American Canyon is.
What’s really sad is that the a-holes who turned the Santa Clara valley into a nightmare have discovered land North of I-80. If this doesn’t encourage the establishment of the State of Jefferson, I don’t know what will.
They better not put any retail there since shoplifting is de facto legal in CA.
We should be building new cities. I wish Freepers were less fuddy duddy. As a country we are stuck in the past.
Reflexive opposition to this is exactly what’s wrong with the country. That said, throw in California and Silicon Valley elites and this could well end badly.
That’s really terrible. Easier to lockdown. It’s a faux utopia and the retards will love it.
They should set aside areas for homeless and illegals. It’s about equity.
Exactly. When I lived in the bay area I had to drive to Sacramento for work sometimes. There were lots of cattle there.
Well, we have enough of a disruption in society right now and enough bad actors, that what you say is entirely possible.
Exactly.
Ha!
Oh this has never been tried before. |
Exactly. Flannery is but a subsidiary of Blackrock. Blackrock controls over tens of trillions of dollars in assets. Chinese Yuan as well.
I can easily see a Chinese Ghost City being built here.
That exact thing is being discussed here by the prog wankers about Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
We also have a touch and go field which simulates an aircraft carrier. There are practices after dark on an irregular schedule, and the wankers who bought property cheap because of the aircraft noise are screaming about the noise. F ‘em !
When I first heard about this deal, it sounded pretty suspicious. After hearing about the plan for the area, I imagine the ultimate result would probably turn out to be about the exact opposite of the proposed plan. Utopian city? Did they get that idea from the Chinese?
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