Posted on 11/05/2023 7:51:18 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Silicon Valley investors who purchased vast swathes of land in California has said they now have all the acreage they need to create a new 'walkable and green' utopian city.
Flannery Associates LLC has spent more than $800 million discreetly buying up areas around Travis Air Force Base in Solano County over several years, for a project dubbed 'California Forever'.
The billionaires behind the group, whose identities were finally revealed at the end of August, acquired around 814 more acres in October, meaning it now owns more than 53,000 acres in the region.
Flannery says the proposed new city will be 'walkable and green', create thousands of jobs and 'bring back the California Dream' - against the backdrop of the steep economic and social decline of nearby San Francisco.
But the project has been criticized by locals over potential impacts on the agricultural economy and air base security.
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how many someone become a billionaire and be so stupid as to attempt to build a city in California?
If he had half a brain he would be building it in East Texas!
This guy will waste billions and this will never get built, because California is more concerned about some random bug or mouse than this.
Will there be a fence around it?
My thoughts exactly
I say we send as may Illegal Aliens and Homeless as we possibly can...
I heard China was buying land around AFBs. Has anyone checked this group out? Are they Marxist?
Yep… and it is like 80 square miles
So a city full of liberals and snowflakes with a climate agenda. That’s every city in California.
Aren’t homeless people the most green? No house, no power consumption, shxt in the street, no vehicles, etc.
No thanks. A planned city like this will require “planned people”. Maybe they can call it “Stepford”.
I don’t go for that.
Images appear to be lily white. Need to over represent blacks, illegals, and the homeless and see how long the utopian idea will last.
53,000 acres of Eloi.
This smells like a scam.
Where will the homeless camps go? How about the mosque? The gay/lesbian/whatever center?
Net Zero Living https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133504-300-net-zero-living-how-your-day-will-look-in-a-carbon-neutral-world/
With 640 acres per square mile that is a little over 82 sq mi - or a square 9 miles on a side.
They'd better get sturdy walking shoes.
Oneida, Amana, Shekina.......... All communist utopias. All gone.
To paraphrase Grocho:
I wouldn’t want to live in a city that would have me for a resident.
Ya wanna nowhere city?
Try The Eden Project; just sw of FortGarland, CO.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3645348,-105.4920278,12669m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
I’ve heard the centerpiece in Babel was going to be pretty spectacular, but it appears they couldn’t read the instruction manual.
13 miles - corner to corner
Depends.
Gonna take it back home to eat it?
It is such a flood zone over there. Last time I was at Travis, the highways in the area were all flooded out.
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