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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

Billionaires spent $800m snapping up California farms. Their mystery plan for a ‘utopian city’ is drawing suspicion

AP

“A chance for a new community, good paying local jobs, solar farms, and open space.”

That’s what California Forever promises on its lushly illustrated new website, launched last week in order to bring transparency to its previously veiled plans for the southeastern corner of Solano County, California, where its property arm, Flannery Associates, has spent the last six years buying up 140 farms on around 55,000 acres of agricultural land at a cost of $800m – to the consternation of many living locally.

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