‘utopian’ City California Forever Announces Huge Tech Manufacturing Park 

California Forever announced connected Thursday plans to build a monolithic manufacturing parkland called Solano Foundry, nan newest summation to its master-planned “utopian” metropolis backed by a group of Silicon Valley billionaires.

Solano Foundry is 2,100 acres that tin big 40 cardinal quadrate feet of precocious tech manufacturing space. The manufacturing parkland will beryllium built arsenic portion of its planned walkable metropolis pinch complete 175,000 homes, CEO Jan Sramek said astatine nan Reindustrialize convention successful Detroit.

Sramek tweeted that U.S. manufacturers can’t triumph by “building factories disconnected of random freeway exits successful nan mediate of nowhere. The champion group don’t want to activity there.”

This tract will connection expedited permitting, proscription for vanished goods, and plentifulness of powerfulness from renewable energy, he said. The dream is that it will pull hardware, engineering, and AI talent from comparatively adjacent Silicon Valley. Solano County is astir 40 miles northeast of San Francisco.