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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It absolutely WILL be all of those things.
Like many places in Norcal, they’ll just price out the riff raff and make it far enough away the junkies don’t try to get there.
Central planning = fascism
None of those pictures has a unicorn in it.
The unicorn is silent. It would be great if the left withdrew to their 15 min bunkers & let the rest of us get on with our lives.
Doesn’t look very diverse.
Truth.
Gated, walled, patrolled.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+many+times+have+liberals+built+utopia&ia=web
how many times have liberals built utopia?
Didn’t Disney try this 20-30 years ago? It didn’t work, but of course, force wasn’t used.
HAHAHAHAHA
It looks like a scene out of a Twilight Zone tv show.
I bet it’ll have a ‘WAll’.................
Where is the guy pooping on the sidewalk?
Where are the homeless tents?
Where is the flash robbery?
Where is the naked pride parade?
Where do you get the water for all the greenery?
Like a place with a wall around it? 🖕
Save that for the border(s).
Well, as long as that wall has flood gates we can weld open.....
These ‘artists renderings’ are as rooted in reality as illustrations from Popular Science in the 1930’s showing entire cities living above the clouds in dirigibles.
A new destination for Gov. Abbot to drop off illegals. The billionaires will need someone to clean toilets, etc.
More lies from democrats.
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