Tech moguls used ‘strong-armed’ tactics to buy Bay Area land for secret city, farmers say

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A group of landowners say a Silicon Valley-backed company trying to build a sustainable city in Solano County used unfair tactics to force farmers to sell their land, including pitting family membe…

A herd of horses walks in a pasture south of Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield. A group of investors, California Forever, which describes itself as the parent company of Flannery Associates, has been purchasing plots of farmland around the Air Force base from Suisun City to Rio Vista along Highway 12 in hopes of building a new tech city.

A combine sits on top of a hill on farmland south of Highway 12 near Suisun City. A large portion of land in the area has been purchased by California Forever in hopes of creating a new city. Artist renderings of a purported utopian plan, building a dream city in rural Solano County by a company, Flannery Associates, made up of ultra-wealthy Silicon Valley investors.

Artist renderings of a purported utopian plan, building a dream city in rural Solano County by a company, Flannery Associates, made up of ultra-wealthy Silicon Valley investors. A Flannery spokesperson, in an email to Bloomberg, said that the company has specific evidence of price-fixing and that it’s offered reasonable settlements to individuals and is willing to settle with the remaining defendants.From the Bay Area to Australia, abandoned golf courses are being reclaimed by nature

 

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