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Bill Gates Firm buys AZ land for $80 Mil to create futuristic metropolis
Fox News ^
| November 12, 2017
Posted on 11/12/2017 7:14:05 PM PST by luv2ski
A real estate investment firm owned by Bill Gates recently bought a giant plot of land in Arizona for $80 million to be developed into a “smart city.”
Arizona-based Belmont Partners, one of Gates’ investment firms, purchased close to 25,000 acres of land in Tonopah, around 50 miles west of Phoenix, to create a “smart city” called Belmont, KPNX reported.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: belmont; billgates; billionaires; commune; landuse; lefties; nirvana; realestate; tonopah; utopia
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Oddly, there is no mention of where he is going to get the water for this utopian city. Last I heard, Arizona is the desert.
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:14:06 PM PST
by
luv2ski
>> into a “smart city.”
Creepy.
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:15:33 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: luv2ski
Dang.
Houses are inexpensive around there and I’d thought about buying one before prices went up.
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:16:27 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: luv2ski
Water? No problem. Just dam the Colorado river. PLENTY of water for everybody!
To: luv2ski
The God Complex of the superrich.
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:18:03 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: luv2ski
Utopia...yet again.
To: luv2ski
The Eloi will enjoy it
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:18:33 PM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: luv2ski
If I had his money, I’d do the same. City of Reagan, WI.
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:18:42 PM PST
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(10% pure, flat income tax for everyone. No deductions, credits, or loopholes.)
To: luv2ski
Beware.
Your new homes will be susceptable to mega viruses, need to be rebuilt every three weeks, and you will have to disable spyware in your home after each rebuild.
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:19:16 PM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Which century are you in?
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:19:22 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: luv2ski
Are they going to start testing people to determine who will live there?
To: Da Coyote
Just wait ‘till your garage door become a blue screen?
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:20:16 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: ifinnegan
Do any of these planned cities ever work out?
Reston, Virginia, Columbia,Maryland, Seaside, Florida come to mind. Have any of these places lived up to the promise of the new urbanist promise of being a better more livable city?
To: Da Coyote
Just wait ‘till your garage door becomes a blue screen?
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:20:44 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: luv2ski
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:22:52 PM PST
by
Lurker
(President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
To: luv2ski
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:23:38 PM PST
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Don’t know. Reston seems a fine city, but whether that is due to it being planned, I doubt.
With or without Gates and planned cities this area will be developed.
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:24:00 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Gay State Conservative
Who’s gonna cook the french fries?
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:25:57 PM PST
by
OKSooner
(RIP Joan Rivers)
To: Gene Eric
Reminds me of H. Ross Perot’s Los Colinas.
Very creepy place.
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:26:09 PM PST
by
lightman
(ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
To: luv2ski
My EXACT reaction on reading the headline - wonder what he’s going to use for water?
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posted on
11/12/2017 7:26:32 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
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