“Mr. Moritz and others had dreams of transforming tens of thousands of acres into a bustling metropolis that, according to the pitch, could generate thousands of jobs and be as walkable as Paris or the West Village in New York. ... Take an arid patch of brown hills cut by a two-lane highway between suburbs and rural land, and convert it into a community with tens of thousands of residents, clean energy, public transportation and dense urban life.”

Michael Moritz, Reid Hoffman and Other Silicon Valley Titans Said to Be Behind Mysterious Land Deals

“Back in California, a group of Silicon Valley moguls are pursuing something much grander: a proposal to build a city of 400,000 people on top of rolling hills an hour north of San Francisco (at the moment those hills are occupied by sheep farms and wind turbines).”

Maybe America Needs Some New Cities

“California Forever’s hope is to build a new, up-from-the-ground city on yellow hills dotted with sheep and wind turbines. The company’s long-term plan is to build a walkable city of up to 400,000 people, about an hour north of San Francisco, with a manufacturing center and nearby shipbuilding facility along the Sacramento River.”

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