Jan Sramek, who convinced a bevy of Silicon Valley billionaires to invest $800M buying 55,000 acres of rural land in Solano County, has gone public with his campaign to build an entirely new city between San Francisco and Sacramento.
A measure will be on the November 2024 ballot asking Solano County voters if they want to allow urban development in the sparsely populated area, east of Travis Air Force Base, which is mainly farmland, ranchland and dusty hills.
Sramek, a former Goldman Sachs trader, in an interview on KQED downplayed any futuristic aspects of California Forever, the new name of the project, which was known as Flannery Associates when it was quietly buying up property in Solano County during the past five years.
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