Marc Andreessen’s Family Plans to Build a ‘Visionary’ Subdivision in California

Marc Andreessen is ever trying to physique stuff. For years, his motto has been “it’s clip to build,” which I deliberation helium means metaphorically, though lately he’s been virtually trying to physique stuff. As a salient backer of the California Forever project—the troubled effort to physique a marque caller metropolis connected thousands of acres of Bay Area farmland—Andreessen has been laboring to instrumentality billionaire-backed municipality readying to the adjacent level. And portion that effort whitethorn person stalled, it would look that those adjacent to him are inactive precise overmuch funny successful gathering worldly successful the Bay Area, albeit connected a overmuch smaller scale.

TechCrunch reports that Andreessen’s household is looking to make a caller lodging subdivision connected a ample dispersed of onshore adjacent Vacaville. The outlet reports that an LLC dubbed A&P Children Investments, which is operated by Andreessen’s brother-in-law, John Arrillaga Jr., precocious began readying a “mixed-use development” involving implicit 1,000 homes. The improvement volition beryllium built connected a spot that is located lone immoderate 10 miles from wherever California Forever would’ve been built (and could, someday, inactive beryllium built). Eventually, the spot whitethorn beryllium sold truthful that Andreessen’s wife, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and her brother, John, tin marque immoderate money, the outlet writes.

In different words, those adjacent to Andreessen privation to physique a subdivision—a rather ample subdivision, which 1 overly enthused idiosyncratic attached to the project, A&P rep Greg Bun, has comically referred to arsenic “visionary.” It’s not a caller city, exactly, but I conjecture it’ll person to bash until the caller metropolis gets here—if that time ever comes.

Despite the information that these designs look akin successful quality and carnal proximity to the California Forever project, developers accidental the 2 aren’t related. The subdivision plans reportedly predate California Forever’s sizable onshore acquisitions. “We were not alert that the Arrillaga and Peery families owned immoderate onshore successful Solano County until astir 2 years ago, erstwhile we were already 5 years into the project,” a spokesperson for California Forever told TechCrunch.

Gizmodo reached retired to Andreessen via a16z and to California Forever for comment.

Building a suburb is going to beryllium a full batch easier than gathering a caller city, which was ever a moonshot. The tech billionaires backing the quixotic task look to person envisioned it arsenic a paradigm shift for the tract of municipality development. However, the project’s backers screwed up its motorboat truthful severely that it ne'er truly went anywhere. By majorly pissing disconnected sizable portions of the section assemblage via a misplaced litigation effort, California Forever got disconnected connected the incorrect ft with the determination denizens that it needed to woo. After overmuch pushback, task developers withdrew their effort bid to cram done authorities that would mandate the city’s creation. While the task whitethorn not beryllium officially dormant yet, it surely isn’t moving much. It appears to beryllium laying, motionless, successful a field, and it’s unclear from a region whether it’s breathing oregon not.