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
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. 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.
It’s being built in a drought area, and the neighboring town has already said we can’t help with water.
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.
Yeah, let’s spend money to move offices to a worse location. More dangerous commute, more traffic, worse weather, worse neighboring cities and more air traffic,.
The developers don’t need to make it that appealing. It’s close enough to San Francisco and Sacramento while also being next to an airbase. The housing demand in the area is already high. They will be filled quickly no matter what. My bigger concern is what happens to Fairfield, I’m not sure if this will have a positive impact and I fear to see what a worse Fairfield would look like.
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.
Tech workers don’t live out here in significant numbers. They are way more common in the South Bay than the Fairfield area. IMO.