A crew of tech billionaires have been making an attempt to get the California Endlessly venture off the bottom, which might create a brand new, supposedly utopian metropolis on land north of the Bay Space. That venture is on maintain till 2026, when it’s more likely to seem on native ballots, however TechCrunch realized that this isn’t the one improvement venture within the works from the technorati.
Marc Andreessen, who’s an investor within the California Endlessly venture, additionally has connections to a different improvement venture close by. His spouse, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, is the daughter of Silicon Valley actual property mogul John Arrillaga, Sr., who left his youngsters some land in the identical space that California Endlessly desires to construct. Arrillaga-Andreessen’s brother has begun the approval process to build a mixed-use development with over 1,000 homes.
Why are these influential households racing to develop this land, and the way are locals reacting? We’re unpacking it on in the present day’s TechCrunch Minute.