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There’s literally nothing about this that’s described as a mystery…? It’s stating all the facts…
We solved the mystery!
Probably meant to say mysterious rather than mystery
They won’t have to pay as much for employees to rent an apartment from their company than they would for their employees to rent a San Francisco apartment.
It also means that people who quit immediately lose their home. This is great for employee retention.
Yeah, and the absolute worst thing is they’ll be swarmed with applicants. A job and guaranteed housing I can afford? Guaranteed to be able to afford food and lunch etc? Deals on partnered electronics? I’m even willing to bet they’ll allow remote work when you live there. To the average person it looks like a great deal. It makes life simple.
But when you want to switch jobs to boost your salary you’re faced with having to move and finding a new place to live in the bay area isn’t easy. Then the issue of leaving the town meaning leaving friends, changing schools if you have kids and everything that entails. Not to mention if your partner also works there. There will be a lot of people effectively stuck. That feeling of not having a choice, of being stuck is really insidious.
And with depressed wages, which won’t impact them much while they work since they get housing and stuff cheaper. But come retirement the life time of lower earnings will rear its ugly head.
Bro company towns worked super well for the people the last time it was tried, what are you talking about?
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Except for that initial $800 million, plus the billions it will cost for infrastructure.
They will try to get that financed by VC or regular finance and skim something off the top of everything that’s happening in the city.
Even if the libertarian nightmare fails, they still have a developed city near SF.
That will get passed on to a local municipality, just like building sprawling suburbs
Sounds like the plot from a James Bond book…
Modern day coal towns.
Fordlandia for the Web 3.0. Show your corporate NFTs at the gate.
This is already the plot of Parable of the Shower by Octavia E Butler. It does not end well.
Kinda sounds like Night City from the Cyberpunk games too. These guys read the science fiction and miss the point entirely.
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A Sin City 😮
New Amsterdam
a new city, or like, some kind of dystopic conclave for the super-wealthy?
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So a property development company is developing a property. What’s the mystery?
I mean, they are a bit late to the party covering this, but o.k. It’s been in major news outlets here for years. Anytime that land get snapped up people take notice. Including eyes at Travis, which they didn’t even get into in the article. Between the litigation around purchase costs, regulations which are in place already to protect the interests and security of Travis, to the general development regulations of the state, they are in for a rude awakening if they believe in any pipe dreams on the site. They likely won’t happen as they think they might anyway… There is enough red tape in California real estate development alone to wrap the planet. The only “company” that so far has managed to come even close to building “new city” type agreements has been Google - the only ones who, for obvious reasons, have not even batted an eye at coughing up to date $1B in land investment around the Bay Area with it’s vision for mixed use space within existing city limits in Mountain View and San Jose, and support of more housing development.
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Sounds exciting, would love to work there and see this all grow and help develop it.
Seems cheap, in BC 800million might get you 800 regular sized lots, going to be a tiny village
