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Someone bought 52,000 acres in the Bay Area. No one knows who they are.
San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Aug 15, 2023 | Katie Dowd , SFGATE

Posted on 08/16/2023 10:06:12 PM PDT by thecodont

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To: lee martell

GMTA.


21 posted on 08/16/2023 11:04:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Reverend Wright
Naturally. There's his son, his brother, sister-in-law.

Nothing but a bunch of grubby low life kids of a used car dealer who saw politics, Democrat Party politics as a way to get rich.

I saw the same thing growing up in Kearny, West Hudson County, NJ.

All Democrat, all grifters. Same in Essex County across the Passaic River, in Newark. As crooked a Democrat dump as ever there was.

22 posted on 08/16/2023 11:05:27 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: thecodont

So what connected politicians are hoping to close the air force base and get a huge parcel of land with lots of embedded infrastructure to develop?


23 posted on 08/16/2023 11:18:55 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: thecodont

Two words: Black Rock

Or is it one? Blackrock.


24 posted on 08/16/2023 11:23:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: kiryandil

There is no question in my mind that is the reason why Democrats are sabotaging the entire West Coast, infrastructure and water and everything you can think of.

Once they drive everybody out and the Chinese take over, the fresh water smelt won’t matter as much.


25 posted on 08/16/2023 11:25:43 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: thecodont

It’s good to see that somebody is finally catching onto the reason for the sabotage of the entire West coast.

It will be nice when they start to ask questions as to why Mexico is sending 100 Mexicans to inhabit the entire and southeast.


26 posted on 08/16/2023 11:28:51 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: thecodont

Yes they do. Quit being a bitch for headline clicks.


27 posted on 08/16/2023 11:36:37 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: thecodont
Congressional insider trading is the obvious answer, especially when it comes to possible base closures.

Remember Harry Reid's real estate purchases in Nevada?

-PJ

28 posted on 08/16/2023 11:50:52 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: thecodont

You can bet that the Biden Admin knows who they are. Preparing for the communist takeover.


29 posted on 08/17/2023 12:23:56 AM PDT by Revel
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To: lee martell

Frannely Associates, RRC.


30 posted on 08/17/2023 12:49:51 AM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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SOLANO COUNTY – A mysterious corporation has quietly bought upwards of 30,000 acres of windswept agricultural land between Suisun City’s Walmart and Rio Vista and around Travis AFB.

Officials from throughout Solano County have just recently learned of the land sales from century’s old family homesteads. The buyer, listed in county files as Flannery Associates, has a Washington DC attorney who won’t divulge what the land will be used for or who his client is. Two local Realtors handle this end of the transactions and one has contacted old-time farmers and ranchers, asking them to sell. The offers are double the going price of raw Ag land along Highway 12 and, importantly, surrounding Travis AFB. $10,000 to $12,000 per raw acre. The cumulative 55 purchases, which began about two years ago, are almost too good to pass up for families who’ve had the land since it was homesteaded or acquired in land grants. Farmers are allowed to stay on their land, farm it, and keep any profits – until they pass. The family does not inherit the land. Even the windfarm that includes 6,800 acres alone, is now the property of Flannery Associates. Profits from the windfarms will still go to the seller, a source told me. Ranchers and farmers who’ve spent decades working the land are now millionaires. Nobody could begrudge them that. But the mystery: What exactly is the intent of the buyer? Houses? Open space? Natural gas? Or something else? I found out about this on Sunday and dug in. This may be one of the largest land transactions since before Solano County was a county, the township and range days or during land grants. Some of the land has been in the same families since before the formation of Solano County. Now Flannery Associates owns the land. I spoke with John Sweeney, a landowner who posted about the massive land transactions yesterday. Sweeney is a skeptic. I also communicated with fellow elected officials and an attorney in Washington D.C. Today, officials are meeting to discuss what they know. It isn’t much. The most important task is protecting Travis AFB. Who or what is Flannery? The Secretary of State has some insight. The Delaware LLC was formed on Jan. 29, 2018. On February 14, 2019, the corporation filed “for foreign status to do business in California.” The sole managing member is Thomas Mather and the business address is in Folsom. Mather coordinated sales with area farmers and signed deeds as manager for Flannery. I have not been able to reach Mather - yet.

USES Agricultural land is restricted in its use in Solano County. Housing developments are not generally approved. Instead, cities annex land city services such as sewer and water are available. This is long-standing policy in Solano County. While Suisun City would like to grow and bring in businesses, nobody is outwardly talking about annexing 30,000 acres of land. Even if the city tried it, there would be a long rough road. Powerful county officials don’t like the idea, they’ve told me. “That won’t happen,” one said. Again, no elected official in Suisun City has even hinted at such a move, so I believe it’s highly unlikely. Houses are not in the near future there. Retail? Nah. Again, this would need annexation. What about wind farms? This isn’t going to happen either because of interference with Travis AFB’s radars and other high-tech equipment. How about natural gas? Probably not. Natural gas in the area is close to depletion. Flannery apparently isn’t interested. When the corporation bought the land, it did not include mineral rights, which is strange. What about pot farming? Possible, but not legal in the county right now.

The mystery continues for now. Perhaps the land is just a long-term investment, as the corporation’s DC lawyer said. Perhaps.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Sacramento/comments/c96bkb/a_mysterious_corporation_has_quietly_bought/


31 posted on 08/17/2023 1:02:48 AM PDT by MarMema (Eat your bananas, enjoy the decline)
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To: thecodont

Chinese Primaries? That seems to be a Chinese pattern.


32 posted on 08/17/2023 1:34:20 AM PDT by arthurus (covfefe pp)
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To: thecodont

umm...let me guess...China


33 posted on 08/17/2023 2:50:41 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: thecodont

They actually wonder? China had been buying land surrounding and near military need for years. Maybe decades.


34 posted on 08/17/2023 2:56:39 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: thecodont

My fortune cookie sez...................


35 posted on 08/17/2023 3:22:29 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Reverend Wright

The Chinese are currently in serious turmoil. They will not return to the status quo ante.


36 posted on 08/17/2023 3:29:46 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: MarMema

Two things that I wondered: The name of the DC lawyer and what the City/County has listed on their real estate information for these properties.


37 posted on 08/17/2023 3:47:37 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: thecodont

Just more of China’s invasion plans.


38 posted on 08/17/2023 3:57:30 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: jmacusa

Biden is compromised. He knows it, the Chinese know it, the American public doesn’t know it but should.


39 posted on 08/17/2023 3:58:42 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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LOL!


40 posted on 08/17/2023 3:59:18 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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