Can California Forever pull it off?
California Forever has had its ups and downs. The project, which was originally announced in 2023 and is backed by a variety of well-known Silicon Valley billionaires, seeks to create a brand new city in northern California. Last year, a ballot initiative designed to legally certify the project was pulled from consideration after ongoing local backlash. At the time, the project seemed doomed. Now, however, it may have new life, as its backers are hoping to form a “new community” by drastically expanding an already existing Bay Area city.
Last week, California Forever announced that it had submitted a formal application for what it calls the Suisan Expansion Project. The plan would reportedly expand the city of Suisan, which is located adjacent to the massive Solano County land bundles previously purchased by the development group, by approximately 22,000 acres. That land, which would be incorporated into Suisan, would then be used to build a variety of new businesses and residential areas, including what developers call “the Solano Foundry”—a planned industrial park, centered around a large manufacturing plant, that the group describes as a “new home for frontier tech, an hour north of Silicon Valley.
