California Forever: Ambitious Plan to Develop a New Town

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California Forever: Ambitious Plan to Develop a New Town
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Jan Sramek, founder and CEO of Flannery Associates, has been secretly buying agricultural land in California's Solano County to develop a new town called California Forever. With the support of billionaires, Sramek plans to create a walkable community with thousands of homes and facilities, including wind and solar farms.

Few people have dedicated more time, money, and effort to resurrecting the state’s past glory than 36-year-old Jan Sramek , founder and CEO of Flannery Associates , the corporation with designs to develop a large tract of California ’s Solano County into a town, so named California Forever, from scratch.

Since 2017—with the help of billionaires Laurene Powell Jobs, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, Michael Moritz, and others of their ilk—Sramek has been secretly buying agricultural land, accumulating at least 50,000 acres to the tune of $900 million. His proposal is nothing if not ambitious: A walkable community (unthinkable by most in California) of an initial 20,000 homes—and eventually as many as 400,000 people—just northeast of San Francisco that includes its own roads, parks, schools, offices, restaurants, and public transit, with wind and solar farms to boo

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