Buying the Farm

“Residents worried it could be a front for foreign spies looking to surveil a nearby Air Force base. One theory held the company was acquiring land for a new Disneyland. Now the truth was standing in front of them. And somehow it was weirder than the rumors. The truth was that Mr. Sramek wanted to build a city from the ground up, in an agricultural region whose defining feature was how little it had changed. The idea would have been treated as a joke if it weren’t backed by a group of Silicon Valley billionaires.” But not everyone wanted to sell. We can’t be sure if there will ever be a new city in Solano County. But we can definitely be sure that this part of the story will be made into a limited series for Netflix. NYT (Gift Article): The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted. (Usually, the opposite is true.)