‘California Without end’ web site touts town tech billionaires are attempting to construct

Flannery Associates, the corporate behind land grabs close to San Francisco that turned out to be a secret plot to construct a metropolis with lots of of thousands and thousands in funding from rich tech leaders, has revealed a web site for the deliberate metropolis. California Without end is the identify of Flannery’s mum or dad firm, and its web site is full of sunny footage of a walkable, inexperienced metropolis by the bay.

The textual content units up what it says surveys inform it residents need — good native jobs, walkability, security, and so on. — then makes obscure guarantees to not smash close by agriculture and to create photo voltaic farms. On the backside, the location guarantees walkable neighborhoods and to “assist resolve” infrastructure points and “shield and assist” the close by Travis Air Pressure base.

Former Goldman Sachs dealer Jan Sramek, who based Flannery Associates, first satisfied Stripe CEO Patrick Collison to take a position, then others, together with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, writes The New York Occasions. They slowly acquired, in secret, over 50,000 acres round an Air Pressure base in Solano County, which the Occasions notes is the poorest within the area.

Solano County Administrator Invoice Emlen mentioned the corporate instructed him they had been investing in household farms and deliberate to “proceed with grazing and farming,” in line with The San Francisco Chronicle. “Our insurance policies have been that large-scale residential improvement takes place within the cities,” he was quoted as saying.

The Occasions writes that California State Senator Invoice Dodd, whom Sramek and a political guide approached to apologize, mentioned he thought the group was “off to a foul begin” if it wished to construct a brand new metropolis, reported the Occasions.

An image from the California Without end web site. Picture: California Without end

On the web site, footage of the theoretical metropolis, that are nearly actually AI-generated (take a look at the solar setting in entrance of a mountain), present a sunny inexperienced city sitting amid rolling hills, farms, and windmills. The textual content describes a walkable metropolis with photo voltaic farms, open land, and “good-paying native jobs.” The corporate even says it’s “additionally ” in methods to assist homeownership utilizing down-payment help.

The web site is in any other case fairly gentle on particulars in regards to the metropolis itself, with no specifics a few inhabitants, its measurement, or the way it will maintain itself. An included FAQ addresses potential issues by gesturing vaguely at issues like the necessity to enhance the North Bay Aqueduct. There’s additionally a big chunk of the location dedicated to California Without end’s plans to persuade locals to get on board with surveys and an area advisory board.