By BisNow
In the middle of Solano County near the San Francisco Bay are 65,000 acres that could become the birthplace of a new city.
A group calling itself California Forever — funded by a who’s who of Silicon Valley veterans — aspires to transform 17,500 acres of that land into the hometown of 50,000 people by 2040. If all goes to plan, its leaders estimate the project would have more than $16B in annual economic impact on the semirural county — and be an answer for the housing crisis plaguing the Bay Area.
“We have an incredible advantage of being in a region that has a terrible problem with underproduction of housing,” California Forever Head of Planning Gabriel Metcalf told Bisnow in a recent interview. “Our business thesis is that there is an underserved market for walkable urbanism, and this project will be a test of that thesis.”
