Posted on 09/01/2023 1:05:26 PM PDT by DFG
The tech billionaires behind a project to build a utopian new city in California's Bay Area have released the first artistic renderings of their ambitious plans.
Previously known only as 'Flannery Associates,' the group rebranded as 'California Forever' and released the plans in a publicity blitz on Thursday night, following months of silence and speculation.
Led by former Goldman Sachs trader Jan Sramek, the group's backers include Silicon Valley heavyweights such as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Andreessen Horowitz investor Marc Andreessen, and Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs.
California Forever is now the largest landowner in Solano County, which is about 60 miles northeast of San Francisco, after snapping up more than 50,000 acres of farmland for more than $800 million.
The group's voracious acquisition of land surrounding Travis Air Force Base had sparked national security concerns and a federal investigation, until their true identity and intent was revealed earlier this week.
On their newly published website, California Forever offered the first renderings of its plans to turn the arid, hilly farming region into an ideal planned community.
The drawings show Mediterranean-style homes clustered on hillsides and shorelines, with wind farms dotting the background.
Streetscapes are dominated by pedestrians and cyclists, with outdoor cafes filling the town square and no cars to be seen.
In one drawing, kayakers paddle in a nature preserve, while another shows workers installing a solar energy panel.
In a statement, the group acknowledge that its silence as it mysteriously snapped up land had 'understandably, created interest, concern, and speculation.'
'Now that we're no longer limited by confidentiality, we are eager to begin a conversation about the future of Solano County,' the group added, saying the area 'faces many challenges - but also presents countless opportunities.'
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Exactly. No one working a service industry job will be able to live there. If nothing else, how will they get to their jobs if there are no cars? And how will the people who can afford to live there get to *their* jobs?
This is fantasy.
All be working from home executives
less homelessness, LOL!!! good luck wi that...
Columbia and Reston are doing fine. They were designed to be inclusive, not exclusive. This proposed enclave will crash.
Publicity blitz
Utopia still not found
lol
Maybe they hope that by eliminating cars there can’t be drive carjackings, and such.
They do that in Florida too. Then once they buy properties they rent them to the trashiest people they can so the neighbors sell and move out.
Then, once they own all the land they want they have the homeless pushed out towards the next targeted area, and price out the old renters. They fix up the rentals and charge higher rents or tear the places down and build new luxury homes. Wash,rinse, repeat.
So now “less homeless” in front of your house is a featured selling point in the once- great state of Californication
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