Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Tech leaders emerge behind plan to build new city near California air base — Group has spent nearly $1 billion to buy thousands of acres northeast of San Francisco::Group has spent nearly $1 billion to buy thousands of acres northeast of San Francisco
Cant wait to see this one fall to bears too.
Are there bears there already, or should we import some just to be safe?
If SF did not have strict zoning and NIMBY’s it would look like Hong Kong. The demand for more housing on limited land is strong.
As long as it is a decently dense development that is walkable and has public transportation (subways are far cheaper if open cut) then I say build away.
This isn’t all that close to SF tbh. It’s about 45 min- 1 hour away. I doubt they are going to alter existing highways that have the comforting title of Blood Alley because of all the fatal crashes.
Public transportation out in this area is basically non-existent. We got some buses, and that’s it. The closest BART(Bay Area Rapid Transit aka subway) station to where they are building this is concord about 30 min away, with the ride into the city taking another 45. It’s on the cusp of being too far away to commute to the city.
I’m assuming that if it is driven by tech, there will be offices for the major companies there. The developers will make it appealing for major tech firms to invest somehow.
Man, I don’t know. When I was living in Concord, I felt like there were thousands of people commuting to SF from over thirty minutes east of us. It may have just been my misperception at the time (about six years ago), but it always felt like the demand for housing for the tech sector employees commuting to the city or further was always outpacing the capacity of the existing towns east of Oakland.
Paywall :(
And also it’s no a nearly billion but 800 million. I know it from another article posted here. So it’s a paywalled clickbait repost.
800 million is nearly a billion, much like how 8 is nearly 10.
Weird quibble to have.
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The sooner they fuck off to mars the better .
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Monkey’s paw: they’re on Mars but their machines are still on Earth subjugating dissent while the planet is stripmined.
Corran1138@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or, they have the greatest, most technologically advanced space navy, with the Mariner Valley full of Chinese-Texans who all speak with the Texan drawl.
Blizzard@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Elysium plot (except for space station instead of Mars).