Tech leaders have spent $800 million trying to build a new city beside San Francisco

Above, a sight that will not be visible from Flannery Associates’ new city. | Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Over the past five years, a company named Flannery Associates has spent $800 million scooping up land outside San Francisco — without explaining who’s behind the effort or what they plan to do with the land. Now, local officials who’d been looking into the matter finally have their answer: a group of wealthy and recognizable tech leaders are behind the venture, and they’re hoping to use the land to build a brand new city, according to reports from The New York Times and Read Entire Article