A road sign near land recently purchased by Flannery Associates near Rio Vista, California.
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FOR the past six years, a mysterious group called Flannery Associates bought up swathes of farmland north of San Francisco in Solano county. Now that it has amassed over 200 square kilometres, it has gone public with plans to build a city and revealed the name of the project, California Forever.
Jan Sramek, CEO of the operation, said he has been working with investors including venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. They…
