{"id":19485,"date":"2025-07-20T07:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/silicon-valley-backed-california-city-project-pitches-plan-for-manufacturing-hub\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T07:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:37:24","slug":"silicon-valley-backed-california-city-project-pitches-plan-for-manufacturing-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/silicon-valley-backed-california-city-project-pitches-plan-for-manufacturing-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley-backed California city project pitches plan for manufacturing hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive of \u2018California Forever\u2019 says proposal to develop site would represent \u2018new home for frontier tech\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The chief executive of \u201cCalifornia Forever\u201d, a Silicon Valley billionaire-backed project to build a new city on tens of thousands of acres of California farmland, has announced plans to develop a manufacturing site within the future town for defense, energy, robotics, aerospace and transportation companies.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Reindustrialize summit in Detroit, Jan Sramek called the proposal the \u201cSolano Foundry\u201d. The 2,100-acre site would be located on the more than 65,000 acres in Solano county that the tech billionaires <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/25\/business\/land-purchases-solano-county.html?action=click&amp;module=RelatedLinks&amp;pgtype=Article\">began purchasing<\/a> in 2017 but have yet to develop.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/18\/california-forever-manufacturing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/41b1633d121c699ece5ba4e675d9ead86ed3de0f\/126_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f20364d0063f16a60a5c638c2eed609c\" title=\"Silicon Valley-backed California city project pitches plan for manufacturing hub\" \/>Chief executive of \u2018California Forever\u2019 says proposal to develop site would represent \u2018new home for frontier tech\u2019<br \/>\nThe chief executive of \u201cCalifornia Forever\u201d, a Silicon Valley billionaire-backed project to build a new city on tens of thousands of acres of California farmland, has announced plans to develop a manufacturing site within the future town for defense, energy, robotics, aerospace and transportation companies.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the Reindustrialize summit in Detroit, Jan Sramek called the proposal the \u201cSolano Foundry\u201d. The 2,100-acre site would be located on the more than 65,000 acres in Solano county that the tech billionaires began purchasing in 2017 but have yet to develop. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive of \u2018California Forever\u2019 says proposal to develop site would represent \u2018new home for frontier tech\u2019 The chief executive of \u201cCalifornia Forever\u201d, a Silicon Valley billionaire-backed project to build a new city on tens of thousands of acres of California farmland, has announced plans to develop a manufacturing site within the future town for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/silicon-valley-backed-california-city-project-pitches-plan-for-manufacturing-hub\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silicon Valley-backed California city project pitches plan for manufacturing hub<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19485"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}