Posted on 08/27/2023 8:59:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Travis Air Force Base and surrounding land in Solano County, Calif. Image: Google Maps
Since 2017, a shadowy Silicon Valley company has bought up 52,000 acres of farmland around Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, Calif., totaling about $800 million.
Flannery Associates is a company run by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former Goldman Sachs trader. Beyond that, nothing much is known of the company except that some of the most famous names in Silicon Valley have invested in a project being promoted by Flannery. Some backers include Marc Andreessen, Powell Jobs, Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and others, according to the report.
The entire Air Force base is now encircled by land owned by Flannery. This caught the attention of the Department of Defense, who have since been investigating. According to the New York Times, in 2017, Flannery was trying to sell an idea to build an entire city — walkable and green. Its proximity to San Francisco suggests that the new city would be an escape hatch for those who are finding San Francisco unlivable. But others aren’t so sure.
“We don’t know who Flannery is, and their extensive purchases do not make sense to anybody in the area,” said Rep. John Garamendi, (D., Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee’s readiness panel. “The fact that they’re buying land purposefully right up to the fence at Travis raises significant questions.”
But the Wall Street Journal is now saying Flannery Associates is going to build that city.
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Or when the SHTF they will be Protected!
Good assignment? Worked with a controller in Berlin that was rated in Travis Tower. He said the runway configuration took a while getting used to. I’m also a little surprised that Travis still has a RAPCON. I would have thought that the FAA had gobbled it up.
The DoD and these dem politicians are trying to act all stupid. Like hay, we just noticed one entity owns all the land around this AFB. DERP!
Don’t you believe it. Not for a second.
I don’t care how inept our leaders are.
And this is. They are trying to stop the expansion.
Happening everywhere.
That wouldn’t be Lt Gabe, would it? He was rated in the tower, and I know he went to Berlin from Travis. Yes, parallel runways, end to end, took a little getting used to. We used to try to arrange, to set two heavies down on parallel runways at the same time. It was a beautiful thing. It was even more majestic, to run F-15s at 1,600 feet, over top of the C-5s at 1,100. It was hairy.
Why? Because they are a front for an even more shadowy group which goes by the initials P.L.A.
I agree with you.
IS FLANNERY just the “Front man”???
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“IS FLANNERY just the ‘Front man’?”
Maybe his real name is “FRANNELY”.
Because the CCP and CCP money are buying land around our military base?
To create Utopia. The first privately owned “15 minute city” where residents will live in peace and harmony and never need to use a dirty filthy car. Nothing will be owned and your very existence will be subscription based.
Upon hearing of the billionaires buying up the land around Travis AFB through front companies, she thought they might be building a private airport for themselves if Travis is on a future base closure list.
I hadn't considered that, but a private airport on the eastern edge of San Francisco and western edge of Sacramento and just south of wine country is an intriguing idea for billionaires people with private jets.
Maybe they want to turn the area into an exclusive playground for the global elites?
-PJ
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