Mystery company has methodically spent $1B to purchase all the land surround Travis AFB (Montclair: lease, condos)

[JGC97]

Originally Posted by Vision67

Disney?

It reminds me of the story about how Walt Disney company surreptitiously acquired huge tracts of land near present day Disney World in Florida during the early 60s.

That didn't turn out to be a bad thing. We were living in different times, though. I don't know about today. I can't help wonder why these purchases are done without transparency. What are they hiding? In today's world, intentions of purpose should be public record so residents can see what's about to happen in their area and dispute, if it's something that might have a negative effect. Like I said, different times, different motives.

[Tulemutt]

Updatetime:

Tech billionaires reportedly backing mysterious Solano County land grab

For years now, a mysterious company has been snapping up land in Solano County, including near Travis Air Force Base. Even as the company, known only as Flannery Associates, amassed 52,000 acres of land, becoming the largest single property owner in the county, it was never clear who exactly was making all these purchases or what they planned to do with the land. The acquisitions border the Air Force base on three sides, sparking concerns about national security.

On Friday, the New York Times seemed to have solved part of the mystery of who, exactly, owns all that land. According to the Times, several of the individual names behind the Flannery Associates shield are Bay Area mainstays, including Michael Moritz, the billionaire tech investor; Reid Hoffman, the venture capitalist who co-founded LinkedIn; and Marc Andreessen, of Andreessen Horowitz fame. The coalition also includes Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of the late Apple CEO, and is overall a “who’s who of Silicon Valley,” the Times wrote.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/artic...y-18331473.php

[JGC97]

The mystery that was is no more. We should have known it would be Silicon Valley wealth behind it. Well, I hope they don't forget to build some affordable housing and maybe even a shelter or two for those without a home.

[cb73]

"It's just tech billionaires" that are threatening farmers and trying to surround a military base.

Why? This doesn't end the mystery. Do they plan to do something? They'd need Planning Dept. on their side, and all the mystery seems like that would make that impossible.

So what's the real truth?

[Vision67]

Free NYT Link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/b...smid=url-share

[Dave Coe]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/b...no-county.html

[NORTY FLATZ]

Pay wall protected.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by cb73

"It's just tech billionaires" that are threatening farmers and trying to surround a military base.

There's nothing that indicates the purchasers intend to "surround a military base". Nor is it true farmers are being threatened. On the contrary, as that NYT article points out, this project is making millionaires out of them. But I do agree that it's funny that anyone who assumed the worst when this first became a story, is somehow relieved by the revelation that 'benevolent techies' are behind the corporation.

[UniversalTraveler]

It was announced recently that the Chinese are investing in properties in proximity to our military installations, no doubt to keep an eye on what our activities are. Just yet another absurdity that we allow them to invest in our country at all let alone compromising our security.

[Tulemutt]

Fleshed out a bit more:

“ After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Their goal is to build a utopian new town that will offer its thousands of residents reliable public transportation and urban living, all of which would operate using clean energy. ..

… “This project would include a new city with tens of thousands of new homes, a large solar energy farm, orchards with over a million new trees, and over ten thousand acres of new parks and open space,” a screenshot of the survey obtained by the newspaper reads.

The poll also asks if residents would support the project if it was placed in an area with “bad soil that only contributes 5% of the county’s agricultural production,” according to a Facebook post from Catherine Moy, the mayor of Fairfield, the closest city to Flannery’s purchases.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-land-new-city



Sinister indeed!