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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why are they all white people?
And of course Antifa and BLM will be too scared to go there.
Sounds like a place where you can own a gas powered oven/range if you want to. Maybe a wood fire place too.
And your illegal landscapers will be able to use those pesky gas powered trimmers and blowers.
Funny how it works out for the elites that way. I’m sure they can explain it to us.
Fifteen minute villages?
Useless eaters- they’re coming for you!
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George Pullman tried this in 1880 -
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https://www.pullman-museum.org/theTown/
How did that all work out?
Looks like all white people and none look like perverts.
Let’s not forget the need to surround it with a wall.
"You will own nothing and be happy"
"'California Forever' founder Jan Sramek unveils first renderings for utopian city near San Francisco and boasts it will feature better schools, safer streets, and less homelessness [??? emphasis added]"
The wires are crossed already. With all due respect to the homeless, I don't associate utopia with having homeless people.
Also, since California's schools evidently indoctrinate, as opposed to educate, project leaders are going to have to go out of state to find the community leaders needed to make this utopia work imo.
And even then, it still won't be a utopia, just not as bad as the rest of California.
I will be glad to be proven wrong on my pessimism.
Inner city ferals are just itching for their new source of looting to be built. After all he didn’t say increased security ... those reparations gotta come from someone.
Let’s play spot the inner city feral, the Afro, the guy in all black with the hoodie up, sport the MS-13 gang banger. Oh, and spot the policeman ...
Have planned cities ever worked out as expected?
What ever happened with Columbia, Maryland, or Reston, Virginia, or Celebration, Florida, or Kentlands, Maryland?
All of those are planned cities or suburbs. Did they work out they way the planners anticipated?
This whole thing is incredibly weird.
The least crazy explanation is that Sramek just decided to fleece his neighbors in Atherton and the denizens of Sand Hill Road with this cockeyed scheme.
The version he’s actually selling reminds me of Marc Lore’s “Telosa” scheme out in the desert somewhere, but just barely close enough to the SF bay area that Silcon Valley’s hordes of H1-B engineers might be willing to stay there.
One thing missing from this piece is that the location is the one remaining area nearish to the bay that remains culturally closer to the central valley than “cosmopolitan” San Francisco. The only thing that’s certain at this point is that bit of cultural stability will be destroyed. Should be interesting to see how this develops though. Kind of like watching a train wreck unfold. Horrifying, but impossible to look away.
Think of it as Evolution in Action ...
And have a very strict immigration policy!
Will I be invited?
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