Ex-Goldman Trader Building New California City Will Need to Appease Local Opponents
- Developer, investors who bought $800 million of land unmasked
- Project already embroiled in a lawsuit, faces zoning scrutiny
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The mystery surrounding a project to convert farmland into a new green city in California is finally being unraveled. The would-be “mega-city” is the brainchild of a novice developer backed by some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent names.
But despite the heavyweights behind the project, it has already been embroiled in legal tussles and is being greeted by suspicion from talkative neighbors in and around Fairfield, a city in Solano County about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco.